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...capabilities are a little overblown. For instance, you don't get an electronic programming guide that helps you sift through the next week's worth of digital cable programming. However, if you already know when your shows come on, you can program them in rather easily by entering dates and times to start and stop recording...
While Summers’ remarks were overblown by the mainstream media, the claims he made certainly merited some controversy. At the conference—which was on women and minorities in the sciences and engineering—he suggested some possible reasons for why there are fewer women in the sciences, ranging from women’s focus on family to the possibility that women’s brains are wired differently, giving them a disadvantage in science and math. These suggestions were taken from the studies of other scientists, but the potential veracity of the statements does not make...
Your story was overblown. We all gothrough soul searching, men and teenagers included. Women should remember that everyone has the choice of being content or miserable. If they choose to be happy, they won't make poor choices that cause a crisis. Women are capable of being decision makers, and we can determine how to improve our life choices...
...charging it with responsibility for the 17 deaths and increased anti-Americanism in the Muslim world. According to White House spokesperson, Scott McLellan: “The report has real consequences. People have lost their lives. Our image abroad has been damaged.” Such accusations are overblown and, of course, ironic...
Each member of the cast continues the accentuation of exaggerated hilarity, making sure their take on the theme is appropriate to their role. Sarah E. Stein ’08 plays Domina, Hero’s overbearing mother, with appropriately overblown hauteur. The sleazy profligacy of Lycus, the slave-owner (embodied by Justin V. Rodriguez ’07) contrasts well with the wistfully innocent Hero and the glib Pseudolus. Each individual character’s excesses are played to the fullest in their songs. Here, Sondheim’s score is as snappy and melodic as ever...