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...blogosphere, at the grass roots and in Congress) complain that the President is a spineless, incompetent quitter. Conservatives (on Fox News and talk radio, at tea-party confabs and in Congress) insist that he is a panicky, on-the-run liberal. Old media sputter that he is a flailing, directionless Jimmy Carter redux. (See pictures of Barack Obama's first year in office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Ways to Judge the State of the Union Address | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

...don’t just want to follow directionless reductions, one after another,” said Smith, who stressed the importance of implementing carefully informed structural changes that do not compromise quality...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi and Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: FAS To Determine Priorities Before "Reshaping" Begins | 5/5/2009 | See Source »

...scenic Cape Ann, the economy has always depended on a strong fishing industry. But in recent years, such jobs have all but disappeared overseas, and with them much of the community's wherewithal. "Families are broken," says school superintendent Christopher Farmer. "Many of our young people are growing up directionless." (See the top 10 news stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pregnancy Boom at Gloucester High | 6/18/2008 | See Source »

...Yourself” all feel like second-rate Stripes songs, and Benson’s vocal and instrumental contributions to each are inoffensive at best and crippling at worst. The lyrics yawn, their pasteboard depth most evident on the utterly directionless “You Don’t Understand Me” (“And there’s always another point of view, / A better way to do the things we do, / And how can you know me and I know you, / If nothing is true?”). Boredom only serves as the first shock wave...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Raconteurs | 4/8/2008 | See Source »

...Terror. Their trials constitute the second storyline. The third and least thrilling story line (although no terribly high standards are set by the other two) takes place in the West Coast, as Professor Stephen Malley—poorly played by Redford—attempts to encourage a directionless student to take a social stance. Redford fails to weave together the three unrelated plots into one deeply connected film. At the end, “Lions” frustrates viewers by not working coherently. The overly complicated film, ironically, lacks human complexity in its characters; they feel surprisingly one-dimensional...

Author: By Andres A. Arguello, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lions for Lambs | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

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