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Critics say this costly program has suffered from inept management and a failure to prepare Indians for a bewildering new world of utility bills, car payments and real estate con men. "You can't take Indians off the land, drop them in the middle of a subdivision and expect them to survive," says Lee Brooke Phillips, a lawyer for the Navajo resisters. "People are losing their homes. Their families are being broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bury My Heart At Big Mountain | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...this kind of activity. President of the University Derek C. Bok has promised new guidelines to prevent a repeat of the fiasco, and one can only wish him Godspeed. But as Dean Spence's secretive and timorous handling of the Safran affair demonstrates, the University has been slow and inept at adapting to new funding problems related to the current drain on research resources...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Sign of the Times | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

Melendez readily admits that has not always been his own best advertisement. "I'm still an extremely shy, insecure, socially inept person," he says. He is leaning back Lee Iacocca-style on a cushion in a closet-sized South House single, packed with electronic gimmickery, file cabinets, and impeccably stacked back copies of The Crimson, The Independent, The Salient, The Gazette, and the Harvard College Forum...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: The Life of Brian | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

...mention Reaganomics or the Reagan Revolution. They don't mention Reagan's philosophy or his tremendous success. They only talk about what a "fool" Reagan is: how he can't remember basic facts, how he blunders through his press conferences, how he is stupid, lazy, and surrounded by inept advisers...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: This Buffoon's a Winner | 3/12/1986 | See Source »

Katt is another matter. Several years ago he brought school-boyish charm to the role of an inept superhero in the short-lived television series The Greatest American Hero. In House, he plays the part of an angst-ridden Vietnam vet with the same schoolboyish charm and humor. Unfortunately, angst and schoolboy don't go well together...

Author: By Peter C. Krause, | Title: Remember What Mother Told You: Keep Away From House | 3/7/1986 | See Source »

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