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McCaffrey claims that the mainstream media’s depiction of Pinochet as a thief and murderer is overblown. The facts do not support his case. Pinochet’s thievery, perpetrated while ostensibly conducting the faithful realignment of his country’s economic institutions, resulted in a heist of $27 million stashed in bank accounts around the world. Evidently McCaffrey is also aware of the thousands of murders Pinochet perpetrated through the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional, as the author himself acknowledges at least 3,000 of the deaths on Pinochet’s hands. This...
...writers of “Casino Royale” include “Crash” writer/director Paul Haggis, who adds his effective (if overblown) dialogue to the film, but doesn’t try to convince you that the obscenely long and bloody chase sequence on a Miami runway has anything to do with plot or character development. This is disappointing—it holds “Casino Royale” back from being one of the greatest Bond films ever—but not horribly so. In other films where the interstitial space between blood splatters...
...member of the Shinnecock Nation group, organized and led the prayer to protest a Dec. 6 Crimson column by Jonathan Lehman ’08, which stated that the “crusade” against team mascots in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) was overblown...
...that familiar refrain is not the whole story. Some of the parallels being drawn between now and the days of Soviet rule are rhetorical and overblown. Those who are ill at ease in today's Russia for whatever reason can choose to live and work abroad (indeed, many of Putin's critics have decamped to London); an earlier generation could only dream of such freedom. Still, Kondaurov's feeling of claustrophobia - what Victoria Webb of Amnesty International describes as "the shrinking space for individual voices in Russia" - now appears to be widely shared. This year, Stanislav Dmitrievsky was prosecuted...
Yale junior Gabriel Hernandez, known as MC Plátano and the writer of the “crimson” lines, said that some responses have been overblown because of the schools’ traditional enmity...