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...other Senators in Baghdad last July. He knew Obama favored a 16-month timetable for the withdrawal of most U.S. troops from Iraq, and he wanted to make the strongest possible case against it. And so, after he had presented an array of maps and charts and PowerPoint slides describing the current situation on the ground in great detail, Petraeus closed with a vigorous plea for "maximum flexibility" going forward...
...representations”, Hung said. “You have to mobilize all your senses, the eyes, the ears, to create a much more interesting medium that can convey powerful emotions to the audience.” Hung added that in many talks, presenters will just go from one PowerPoint slide to the next, reading the text off the screen in a monotonous voice. By contrast, he said, embedding movies or using one as a trailer can get the audience interested in the topic and help them understand the message. Similarly, Kuriyama said that in academic writing, being dull...
...people—composed mainly of Colombians living in the Boston area—in the Tsai Auditorium in the Center for Government and International Studies. In a lecture entitled “The Strengths and Challenges of Colombia’s Economy,” Zuluaga used a PowerPoint presentation filled with tables and graphs to illustrate to the audience evidence that Colombia has had “the best economic growth during the last 5 years, averaging 5.1 percent per year.” He explained that since 2004, the Colombian government has poured significant sums of money...
...Saturday, an independent site called Boy Genius Report leaked a 17-page PowerPoint presentation that purported to show the touchscreen Storm, along with an App Center that mimics Apple's App Store and Google's Android Market. The site followed up on Monday with a Storm user guide that TIME was unable to access - probably because too many other folks were attempting to do the same thing - but which was promptly reposted on CrackBerry. RIM would not confirm that the leaked photos were of the Storm, but by Monday afternoon the images had been published and identified...
...original trilogy--i.e., if you expect it to be good--then yes, it's as disappointing as the summer movie it follows. If you think of it as a kid-oriented spin-off product--well, it still suffers from characters with all the vibrancy and pizazz of a PowerPoint marketing plan. But a successful marketing plan, since the vivid CGI (and lots of Yoda) will draw the younglings...