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In "Pride and Prejudice, " after teenage Lydia Bennet runs off with the ne'er-do-well Wickham and risks her family's reputation, the heroine, Elizabeth, maintains a sarcastic yet ultimately generous tone with her flibberty-gibbet younger sister.
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After recording Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien in 1960 with Ms Piaf, Mr Dumont continued to write songs for the singer until her death three years later in 1963.
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And the seller, Jerry Dodge, was a hard-luck ne'er-do-well with a criminal record and what his friends and family describe as limited intellect and diminishing prospects.
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Senators Joseph Biden (D-DE), John Kerry (D-MA) and Chuck Hagel (R-NE) planned to observe the election and meet with leaders of the government and the opposition.
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But when Amazing is captured by the evil Casanova Frankenstein, played with relish by Geoffrey Rush, our three ne'er-do-wells stumble into action and attempt to save the day.
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This week, with the 1999 budget legislation stuck in the Knesset, Yaacov Ne'eman, the finance minister and a close personal adviser to the prime minister, walked out.
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Their problems are complicated by the unwanted arrival of Hannah's ne'er-do-well sister, Susan, who unexpectedly drops in from California with luggage and vague plans to stay with them indefinitely.
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The Red Dog came into being when Mark Unobsky's father warned his ne'er-do-well son that he'd better find something to do with his life, whereupon Unobsky talked his dad into buying a building in downtown Virginia City that he could get his friends to turn into a retreat from their lives as students and workers in San Francisco.
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When Janet's ne'er-do-well brother (Richard Denning), who's having an affair with Madvig's sister (Bonita Granville), turns up dead, everyone assumes Madvig is the culprit.
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Less than a week after the Coalition's ads began airing, the four Republican Senators who had joined the filibuster in December - John Sununu (NH), Chuck Hagel (NE), Larry Craig (ID) and Lisa Murkowski (AK) - reached an agreement with the White House to support reenactment.
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