Word: inept
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...Even while labor negotiations were still grinding away in New York, the press was letting Selig have it: AP sports columnist Steve Wilstein called him "the harbinger of doom," and Jack Todd of the Montreal Gazette wrote a scathing bit about "the most inept commissioner in the history of professional sports." Unfortunately for Bud, even Friday's happy ending probably won't do much to convence anyone otherwise...
...Diesel went from 0 to 60 in last year's cheapie auto-mania epic, The Fast and the Furious. Now he's back in an even more rickety star vehicle. Full of implausible chase scenes (Ever go skateboarding ahead of an avalanche?), director Rob Cohen's epic is pretty inept, while lacking the idiot intensity that makes for a classically bad movie. Basically a butch La Femme Nikita, XXX has extreme-sports star Xander Cage (Diesel) shanghaied into a U.S. government spy unit to buy hot cars from Russian anarchist Yorgi (hyperemoting Marton Csokas). Yorgi is brilliant enough to create...
...door labeled “pull” by pushing as hard as he can. The joke is simple, straight to the point and excruciatingly true. Few will deny that gifted children, for all their intellectual and academic talents, are often some of the most scatter-brained and socially inept people imaginable...
...static, someone in Beijing had to shut down the official programming to let the illicit message through. The override was not a failure of Sinosat's encryption technology, says Ian Barnard, who runs China operations for the South African firm MIH, provider of the encryption software. So was it inept technicians? Or are there Falun Gong sympathizers somewhere in the state-run broadcasting industry? --By Matthew Forney
With so many hungry men looking to take his place, Gore finds himself the one with the most to prove in the money race. His 2000 campaign left donors furious over what they saw as an inept operation; more recently, they have been bewildered by his near disappearance from the political scene. No wonder others have come courting. "There are a number of important national Democratic leaders who I have found it important to support, including Al Gore," says Alan Solomont, the Democratic Party's former national finance chairman. All the players will be looking at second-quarter fund-raising...