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...could also argue that having book checkers--however inept--provides jobs for work-study students. But in my informal survey, five out of six book-checkers were pushing late middle age and were likely not Harvard students. So how about spending that cash on a 24-hour shuttle bus service--or a 24-hour library, for that matter...
HOME ALONE. First you have to get past the preposterous premise and spurious sentiment. Then you can enjoy the comic spectacle of an eight-year-old (Macaulay Culkin) fighting off a pair of inept burglars (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) with the kind of sadistic inventiveness that used to enliven old Bugs Bunny cartoons. The final 20 minutes revive the almost lost art of fall-down- funny physical comedy...
Albanese said mail service has been deteriorating over the past few years as a result of mismanagement, cuts in funding and growth in delivery routes. "The source of Cambridge's mail problem is top heavy, unaccountable and inept management," he said...
...center says it would settle the suit if the city opened more washrooms, but officials claim they don't have the money. Says center attorney Patrick Horvath: "It is simply shameful for a city to be so inept in providing the simplest and most important of public conveniences to those who walk the streets...
Despite Broadway's inept history of trying to combine theater and rock, this one works -- mostly because Paul Hipp in the title role gives one of the most kinetic, infectious and musically shrewd performances in memory. His Holly impersonation is dead-on, but even theatergoers who never saw or heard the original are likely to be won over by his galvanic confidence, charm and sweetness. Here are some of the prettiest melodies of the 1950s, from Everyday and Peggy Sue to That'll Be the Day, rendered with the authentic simplicity of a garage band. They are songs about love...