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Like some dying metronome, a puzzle-perfect plot clumsily unfolds as we wait for the discontented lawyer to quit his job, the passionate female trainee to fall for her superior, and for the ever-present terrorist to be stopped by an untrained, inept pair of old friends...

Author: By Casey N. Cep, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Lawyer Helps Friend, Saves Day­—Again | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

...There are quite a few that [need Charm School], but not everyone is socially inept,” Tammy M. Tasoff ’09 said...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Etiquette School? How Charming! | 2/6/2006 | See Source »

...that felt inspiring in the 1950s--"Better living through chemistry," "Atoms for peace"--have a darker connotation today. Du Pont, which invented nylon, became known as well for napalm. Chernobyl and Three Mile Island soured Americans on nuclear power. Shuttle crashes and a defective Hubble telescope made NASA look inept. Substances from DDT to PCBs to ozone-eating chlorofluorocarbons proved more dangerous than anyone realized. Drug disasters like the thalidomide scandal made some people nervous about the unintended consequences of new drug treatments. It's in that context of skepticism toward science that some reasonable questions have been raised lately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are We Losing Our Edge? | 2/5/2006 | See Source »

...principle" even when he has disagreed with them, left me feeling as if I were living in an alternate universe [Dec. 26-Jan. 2]. Klein's praise of President George W. Bush for his words about the importance of freedom and democracy holds little weight against Bush's inept response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster or his mostly failed approach to curtailing global terrorism. Perhaps it would be more appropriate for Klein to examine our President's actions rather than his words. Sandy Krawitz Bethesda, Maryland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 1/23/2006 | See Source »

...principle" even when he has disagreed with them, left me feeling as if I were living in an alternate universe [Dec. 26?Jan. 2]. Klein's praise of President George W. Bush for his words about the importance of freedom and democracy holds little weight against Bush's inept response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster or his mostly failed approach to curtailing global terrorism. Perhaps it would be more appropriate for Klein to examine our President's actions rather than his words. Sandy Krawitz Bethesda, Maryland, U.S. Modern-Day Deities Re James Poniewozik's article "The Year Of Charitainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Good Samaritans | 1/17/2006 | See Source »

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