Word: ineptness
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...Sometimes it seems to think it's funny; all the time it begs us to sympathize with it. But obsession, no less than the cell phone or the unerasability of our Internet wanderings, is a threat to our privacy, possibly our lives. Any movie, especially one as crude and inept as this one, that refuses to acknowledge that fact is dishonest--sort of a Scream IV without that series' exemplary scariness...
...think Asians deserve a richer image in The Crimson than a socially inept math-obsessed Chinese nerd who cruelly traps his roommate in a box," wrote AAA Co-President Jenny I. Shen '01 in an e-mail message...
...school that is as "enlightened" as Harvard claims to be, it is deeply disturbing that its main student newspaper would publish racially demeaning and ignorant pieces on a regular basis. Any article that portrays Asian-Americans as slanty-eyed, socially inept caricatures would immediately receive a barrage of protests. Despite its derogatory stereotypes, "The Misanthropic Mister Chu" has run this entire semester without much controversy. The student body has mistakenly dismissed it as "harmless," because it appears as a comic strip...
...pernicious given the power Texas judges have over the appointment of counsel. Unlike many states, Texas does not have a state public defender's office; instead, courts appoint individual lawyers to take the cases of defendants too poor to pay themselves. These courts have been widely accused of appointing inept, inexperienced or indifferent lawyers to the demanding task of criminal defense, a practice that is especially worrisome in capital cases where the client's life is at stake. Judges also have the power to decide how much the appointees, including campaign contributors, will be paid...
...latter point is amplified by Third World advocates (and even the World Bank after the Asian bailouts), who point out that the harsh austerity package that typically accompanies an IMF loan or bailout cuts government social spending and therefore transfers the burden of inept decision-making by governments and investors onto the backs of society's poorest and most vulnerable members...