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...Core thus needs to be rethought and further steeped in its own ideals. The faculty desperately needs to be enlarged so that more, smaller courses can be offered and undergraduates can be liberated from the menace of inept graduate students who have the potential to ruin otherwise fine courses fine courses and undermine even the most ideal curriculum...

Author: By Gary D. Rowe, | Title: The Education of Henry Adams, 1988 | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...Spanish president said Franco's regime could not have produced such advances because it discouraged innovation. Seeing this, said Gonzalez, the Spanish people have come to realize that the Spanish nation-state of the nineteenth century was inept at confronting twentieth century international political problems and the future...

Author: By Dawson S. Lin, | Title: Spanish President: Western Europe Seeks Equal Partnership With U.S. | 4/29/1988 | See Source »

Written by William Inge (Bus Stop), the play attempts to recreate life in a small Kansas town in the 1950s. But to a modern audience, the script seems little more than an inept recapitulation of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, without any of the characteristics that have made that play endure...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Out to Lunch | 4/15/1988 | See Source »

...will lead the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood and conduct the Messiah in San Francisco; his North American dates are booked through 1990. Next year's "Experience" subject is still under discussion, but Schumann is a likely candidate. It is an apt choice: conventional widsom says that Schumann was an inept orchestrator whose four symphonies are flawed by treacly instrumental writing. For Norrington, though, such wisdom is both hidebound and earthbound. "Take nothing for granted," he says. "That's my motto over the door." Perhaps Schumann too can soar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Only Poetry Played Here | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...railway that serves the facility, nearly all the canal watershed, and the ports of Balboa and Cristobal. U.S. officials in Panama give local workers high marks for their ability to handle complex engineering and piloting tasks. But under Noriega many high-level operational posts have been filled by inept cronies. The result has been mismanagement of the railway and poor road maintenance. Panama has imposed a dubious "lights and buoy" fee on ships approaching the canal, although the treaty prohibits such charges. At the rate of 1.25 cents a ton, the levy could raise as much as $2.5 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What About the Canal? | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

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