This was in the spring of our senior year, and Anne Marie had the misfortune of giving her presentation right after James Nagali, the only other male student at Our Lady of the Lake, who gave a masterly speech on new soap-dispensing technologies.

NPR: Chapter 1

It is near the end of Year 1, a period marked more by misfortune than makeover.

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Unicom blames a perfect storm for its misfortune, citing the sale of its CDMA network in 2008 for an artificially inflated profit a year ago combined with the immense expense involved in rolling out its HSPA cells over the course of 2009.

ENGADGET: China Unicom profits down 50 percent, NTT DoCoMo up by the same margin