Word: overshadowed
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...senior who didn’t give out of anger over University President Larry Summers’ comments about women in science. To Gift proponents, these stances seem petty and shallow. Seniors (and alums) should not give to Harvard blindly. But neither should they let the bad overshadow the good. Whether Harvard has a student center or not does not affect the fundamentally positive things that Harvard accomplishes. Enforcing narrow administrative or academic accountability by rejecting the Senior Gift makes as much sense as refusing to pay for your parents’ retirement home because they wouldn?...
...racial issues, class issues, town-gown issues, and collegiate athletic issues. While all these factors may ultimately be important in this case, and are certainly pertinent to Raleigh-Durham and the nation, the manner in which the media has portrayed the case has allowed these secondary issues to overshadow the facts of the case. A recent New York Times article, for example, contained allegations that the members of the lacrosse team had been spotted at a local bar on a recent Saturday night (while vigils were occurring on campus) and that the coach had scheduled a practice which had caused...
...presence of Malcolm X in the novel surprisingly does not overshadow the other characters. The depiction of Malcolm Little—called “Red” by the dodgy crowd into which he predictably falls prey—as a young boy in Harlem is, at first, somewhat generic. He is the archetypal young arrival to the city that “wanted to see everything, to find whatever there was to find,” but manages only to find crime and a drug-induced stupor...
...stipends to the upperclassmen who volunteer, only makes the case more compelling. For far too long, prefects have been an incomplete resource for freshmen. They have either been unable or insufficiently trained to dispense academic advice to freshmen in desperate need of it. Our criticisms are not meant to overshadow or diminish the excellent work done by some individual prefects working against a system almost deliberately setup to thwart their efforts. However, merely because some prefects do good work does not mean the system is not in need of serious change, the kind of change announced this week...
...irredeemably saccharine ballads. The worst offender in this respect is “Joy Ride,” an uninspired torch song in which Carey likens the pleasures of love to, surprise, a joy ride—not exactly the most potent of metaphors. Worse, Carey attempts to overshadow the track’s weak production with an excessively acrobatic vocal performance. At times it’s unclear whether she’s singing or just running through scales...