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“We spoke a lot about what kind of man Gustav was — the paradox of someone who can see people so clearly in his art yet be so clumsy and inept in his real life.”

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Several narratives thread through “Down Cemetery Road” — this being from Herron, it isn’t surprising that corrupt and inept government officials are trying to cover up a crime with more crime, much of it quite violent.

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This is American journalism, which is growing more inept and less able to do its job thanks to the government.

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But Netanyahu has refused, calling it corrupt and inept, and he is wary of advancing the possibility of a Palestinian state, which he opposes.

"I don't know if I'm shy. I think I'm socially inept," she recently told Canadian DJ Tara Sloane.

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