Word: unluckiest
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Erik Farley Rudolph must count himself among the unluckiest people in America. Rudolph shares the first and last name of the Alabama abortion clinic bombing suspect who has eluded the FBI for two weeks, and even resembles the fugitive. Federal agents, acting on a tip-off, arrested Rudolph Sunday as he flew into his hometown of Baltimore. While it was quickly established that he was not the bombing suspect, Rudolph found himself held on charges of possessing marijuana...
Some will have difficulty with Giordano's parents' answer. They will find any attempt to explain the randomness of the modern world naive. On my more skeptical days, I have to agree. But I find some consolation in the Biblical story of Job, perhaps the unluckiest good man ever to have lived. When Job demands an explanation for his bad luck from God, a voice replies out of the whirlwind: "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundations? Who fixed its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line over it? And on what do its supporting...
...that cater to the young; panhandling; prostitution; and drug dealing. Hunger is the least daunting problem. In both Los Angeles and San Francisco, any youth who doesn't mind a lot of walking can find at least two free meals a day at various youth centers. And even the unluckiest panhandlers can make enough for a meal; at Taco Bell on Hollywood Boulevard, for example, a burrito costs only 59 cents. Then there is "table scoring" at fast-food restaurants: snatching unattended food from the tables before it is thrown away. Those with stronger stomachs engage in "Dumpster diving...
Poor Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, arguably the unluckiest of the Democrats bullied into voting for the Clinton budget bill last month...
...Boston cafeteria cook William Curry, 37, winning the Massachusetts lottery last year turned out to be his unluckiest bet. Three weeks after winning, he dropped dead of a heart attack, brought on by ceaseless hounding once his $3.6 million win was made public. Curry's is an extreme case, but the business offers, investment schemes and heartrending pleas for help that rain down on winners are a source of widespread worry. A number of states offer basic guidance courses in surviving good luck. They usually counsel winners to get a good tax accountant, an unlisted telephone number and a veneer...