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...think this whole thing being a big problem is overblown," says Lucier of life with his two room mates in Garden...
...open a door for Johnson's entry into that history, even though Powell's claim that Johnson was a kind of black Marsden ; Hartley, discovering full identification with his people through folk culture, passing from a "narrow and skewed" Eurocentric primitivism to a fully integrated "black, populist aesthetic," seems overblown. What matters, however, is that he once was lost, and now is found...
...idle speculation. This week at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, world leaders will be adding their signatures to a treaty to prevent climate change, a document that was significantly weakened during presummit negotiations, in part because of U.S. contentions that the threat of global warming has been overblown. But the Bush Administration's skepticism must contend with the direct experience of millions of citizens who are worried that when the weather gets as odd as it has been of late, something must be wrong...
...High Commissioner for Refugees. "We are hearing stories about families having to watch fathers and sons walk through minefields, and summary executions for the hell of it." While comparisons to the international disbelief, blindness and indifference that enabled Hitler to carry out his "final solution" are overblown, Baker hinted at such a parallel on May 24 at an international conference in Lisbon. It was just bracing enough to renew Western determination to halt the slaughter...
...think Peter's connections to the Washingtonpolitical establishment are vastly overblown,"said Trevor Potter '78, a federal electioncommissioner in Washington and a member ofMemorial Church's visiting committee...