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Smith's supporters say he has proven himself more than adept at getting the job done...
Thernstrom wrote that Liem--who was the academic advisor to both students--was "much more adept at dealing with dead sea-life than with human problems...
...result of the tighter enforcement, bouncers, barkeeps and store clerks have become more adept than ever at spotting even the most undetectable fake ID's--the wink-wink attitude depicted by the Globe three years ago seems like a pipe dream for students whose fakes are getting snatched...
...state system still suffers from a decade of intervention by former Governor Fob James, a wily if obtuse politician of the old school, adept at surviving by switching parties and baiting voters. In 1988, riding a tide of states' rights fervor, he appointed a friend, Martha Nachman, as welfare commissioner, with a mandate to ignore federal court-imposed guidelines on foster care. The mammoth state agency quickly deteriorated...
...cast of The Lower Depths proves that the Harvard stage can put on more Russian shows. There are no fewer than 14 students adept at portraying down on their luck drunks with existential hangups, essential for any future presentation of post-Dostoyevsky Russian drama. Gorky portrays a cross-section of the dregs of late 19th century Russian society with the typically Russian attention to the existence of God, the meaning of suffering and the futility of community. Surprisingly enough, the moral discussions that populate Gorky's low class world in lieu of action resonate well with students' rarefied sensibilities...