Word: hyper
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...Clinton and Obama also will be able to cite a recent article by an Army officer and West Point history professor who has served two tours in Iraq arguing that Petraeus's counter-insurgency strategy is dulling the U.S. military's ability to wage a major conventional war. "This hyper-emphasis on counterinsurgency puts the American Army in a perilous condition," Lieutenant Colonel Gian Gentile wrote last month. "Its ability to fight wars consisting of head-on battles using tanks and mechanized infantry is in danger of atrophy." Gentile argues that it was the cease-fire declared last year...
...outrageous and out-of-touch. The fallout is obvious: a body of students for whom the most delicate disappointment of perfection constitutes universal depression. How is it that students in the company of such affluence and opportunity can sometimes be so unhappy? Perhaps much of it stems from the hyper-reality produced by Harvard students who do not yet know what Harvard...
That's quite an understatement for an already hyper-competitive market with tens of millions of users. Rivals Flickr, Slide, Picasa and Photobucket all offer some of the same features as the new Photoshop Express. Still, Adobe is wise to tap into Web users' growing appetite for simple programs they don't have to buy - unlike Microsoft, which is so far missing out on the free software wave by failing to offer webware similar to Google Docs or Zoho...
...native London. Just don’t expect this to be vintage Guy Ritchie. The moral of the story? Mashing a bunch of cops, criminals, and suits together in London does not automatically make for a fun movie. Jason Statham, to whom audiences continually look for that hyper-masculine British charm, can only provide so much within the confines of a shoddy script and bad directing...
...Getting four family members, all born-and-bred attention seekers, together on stage was a stroke of evil genius. Ozzy spent the whole evening grinning and waving into the audience, Sharon hyper-enthused like a game show host on speed and Jack looked mortified at having to hang out with his parents. In a family of black sheep, it was Kelly who stood out. Casual, cheerful and poised, she was the glue that held the show together, however precariously...