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One of the women, a counselor for "post-abortion trauma," told how she had become pregnant at 20, helplessly felt she had no alternative but abortion, "and for 15 years ...
Who hasn't accidentally told a computer to delete the wrong file or stood by helplessly while the operating system crashed and took all the files with it?
Inspired to despair helplessly: That has been my ongoing reaction to the Peter Singer piece in the Times magazine the week before last, an article to which John Tierney refers in his column in today's Times as well.
Bryant, dazzled by her ingenious retort, babbles helplessly, "OK, good, that's a fair answer," and stumbles to his next query.
(When he stands helplessly in the rain at the end, the deluge completes him.)