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...true?" He was quiet for a full 10 seconds. "I have nothing else to say," he said at last. "We, we did, if, the, the, I, I, the stories are just as they have been said. They're outrageous, and they're not so." More fluent, but just as inept, was this exchange from his deposition in the Paula Jones case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of Presidential Prevarication | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

Police investigators--inept, or maybe even corrupt and racist--have failed to put Stephen's killers behind bars. Over the past five years, they have ignored leads and left evidence unexplored, in effect assisting in the much-disputed acquittal of three of the suspects and failure to prosecute the other two. Stephen's parents have attended every court session, sitting erectly and silently as witnesses relived the incident again and again...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, | Title: POSTCARD FROM LONDON | 7/17/1998 | See Source »

...BURTON Lucky Clinton. Not since Robert E. Lee has a man been blessed with such a series of inept enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 18, 1998 | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

Harvard's men's lacrosse team won an embarrassing victory Saturday, beating Yale by the unusually low score of 5-2 in New Haven. The Crimson's offense was listless, taking a cue from the inept Bulldogs who held the ball more than they tried to score...

Author: By Owen Breck, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lacrosse Wins Ugly in 5-2 Sleeper Over Yale | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...young Jewish healer for a traveling medicine show. Musa is worldliness made flesh, the sort of opportunist and schemer who if asked to swap his soul for profit would probably respond, "What's the catch?" By contrast, Crace's Messiah-in-training is a bit of a stick: an inept carpenter with a stuffy nose, a functional illiterate, the kind of cheerless guy who has to make camping out with snakes and scorpions even harder than it already is. On the other hand he has an iron will. Starved and dangerously dehydrated, he resists the tantalizing bribes of food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Bit Of Gospel Shtick | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

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