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Someone has also wound up the Jack Kemp doll, which declares the 10 percent proposal "timid and pitiful."
The lotteries' pitiful payout--about half of all money wagered, compared with 92 percent or so at your average casino--rightly draws cries of outrage.
The Daily Star of Bangladesh paints the Iraqi crisis as a pitiful Iraq against a ruthless aggressor in an editorial Sunday, saying, " 'Defiance' of a despoiled country resonates with a total back-to-the-wall desperation."
On the one hand, she's the pitiful victim of our hypocrisy and our unnecessary shame.
Their plaintiff is "upbeat" (ABC's This Week With Sam and Cokie ) and "the rule of law is alive and well" (CBS's Face the Nation ). With the president's men falling silent (a deliberate strategy, said George Stephanopoulos on This Week ), the liberal pundits made the case against Jones: She has become a "pitiful pawn" (Al Hunt, CNN's Capital Gang ) of the wacko right, who are "making hay" (Steve Roberts, CNN's Late Edition ) and "diminishing the presidency" (Mark Shields, NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ) by dredging up Clinton's dirty laundry.