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WANTED: Young, fit, socially useful men and women to survive nuclear war. Must be ready to evacuate at a moment's notice. Elderly or inept need not apply...
...Your "inept" article on Joe Restic merits a response The 1982 football team has complete confidence in Joe Restic's coaching ability. Families face many problems, But through open and personable conversations with Coach Restic, we have managed to be come an even closer unit. We won't let this unjust adversity hurt the 1982 football team' The team, which includes both players and coaches, will continue to work for its goal of a 1982 Ivy League Championship. Gregory T. Brown Captain, 1982 Harvard Football...
...voters by manipulating city spending that they are getting good government. More important, while White is smart enough to keep his own hands clean, the machine's conduct when promoting the mayor's hand picked candidates in assorted city council and state legislature races has been not only inept--his candidates are 0-for 14 in such races--but often unethical. Several of his surrogates are clearly backs one of the "Kevin Seven," his city council slate, has since been indicted for passing bad checks...
...chairman a full-time professional. She privately assured Hovde that Swibel would be out "within 90 days," and HUD then lifted the freeze on funds. Swibel's departure will bring no sudden changes in public housing. Still, editorialized the Chicago Sun-Times, "any scheme that would remove the inept Charles R. Swibel as chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority...
...mind the essayist impresses on the work. Of course, this is no different from any form of literary expression Yet, the personal essay differs from the short story in the way it communicates its truth a difference which roughly mirrors that between plain speech and storytelling. Even the most inept can usually keep from bludgeoning beyond recognition the moral of a good story aided, as the storyteller is by the imaginations of his listeners. Finding someone who can convey a similar message out of the clods of rough earth or his own experience and who can do so with...