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...Gonzales had tried to dismiss the controversy as an "overblown personnel matter," but his attitude appeared to irritate the Judiciary Committee's leading Republican, Sen. Arlen Specter. "One day there will be a new attorney general," Specter said at this week's public hearing in the Senate, "maybe sooner rather than later...
...plants could malfunction - to name some worst-case scenarios. There's also the worry of cascading failures. "Changing the time zone in some applications might throw others out of whack," says Ben Kus, senior technology director at BigFix, a computer management firm. Even if fears of Y2K hysteria are overblown, analysts say, many offices will be nettled by out-of-synch e-mail and Microsoft Outlook calendars - in other words, a lot of missed meetings. Rich Kaplan, Microsoft's vice president of customer service says the change will amount to little more than "a nuisance...
...supposed rise of inequality in contemporary America is overblown. As argued by Tyler Cowen, an economics professor at George Mason University, much of it can be attributed to demographic trends. Simply put, as populations get older, they tend to display higher variation in income. Most of the rest of the increase in inequality is a result of increasing returns on education and skill. In other words, to raise wages, activists would be better off with neo-Luddite machine sabotage than with unions, because structural factors in the economy—globalization and technological change—are responsible for unequal...
Director Darren S. Aronofsky ’91 may have grabbed all the attention in 2006 with his overblown “The Fountain” and its time-traveling spaceman conquistador M.D. hero, but it’s another alum, Andrew Bujalski ’98, that really got down to the heart of the Harvard experience. The hyper-indie characters in “Mutual Appreciation” are nice enough, but they are unable to relate to each other and will never have sex—which makes this an ideal movie to get drunk to. Because...
...cautionary wife/ And while it was all going accordingly to plan/ Billy Brown fell in love with another man." Though it's taken a lot of pain to construct, it's still a fun world overall, and Mika built it to his own design. It's also big, sometimes overblown, and there are a few too many ingredients for my liking; too many hooks, styles and voices. But it is serious music. Commercial, yes, but original, and far from my misguided preconceptions. "There is a lot of cynicism around," shrugs Mika, "but it doesn't bother me because...