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...break from boxing tradition, his opponent, Lennox Lewis, had been weighed in three hours earlier in a separate event. Boxing promoters may like the hype, but even they are not taking chances before the opening bell. They learned their lesson at the fracas-cum-pre-fight press conference last January when an enraged Tyson suddenly threw down his hat and, during the ensuing melee, bit Lewis in the thigh. After that, everyone agreed the two men should be kept apart until they crawl into the padded ring at The Pyramid, the 10-year-old downtown arena normally reserved...
Indeed, there will be no shortage of preseason expectations heaped upon next year’s team. But that fact alone won’t frazzle the Crimson, who learned how to avoid the pitfalls of excess hype this year...
Yenne was noticeably Harvard’s lone junior honoree on the All-Ivy Second Team. The Harvard Class of 2003, which was ranked No. 7 nationally in the Soccer Buzz recruiting rankings three years ago, backed up that lofty hype by being instrumental to a team that rose to No. 7 in the national rankings in 1999. But since that undefeated Ivy season the class’ results have been full of disappointment...
Things change. Imagine this was a year ago. A movie called "The Sum of all Fears" opens. You discount the implicit hype of the title - who could possibly sum up all the angst you are prey to in the deeper watches of the night? But you truck on out to the theater, and find yourself confronting a well-made, even occasionally witty, thriller in the "Fail Safe", "Seven Days in May" vein. Once more, dear friends, on to the brink. You come away reasonably pleased with a slick Hollywood fantasy...
...Today his job-approval rating stands at 63%, according to the most recent Brown University poll, though half of those surveyed think he's guilty of at least some of the 29 felony counts on which he has been indicted. Cianci dismisses that perception as the product of "hype in the media" and grouses that a local TV station bumped People's Court from its afternoon slot to carry daily reports on the case the FBI has dubbed Operation Plunder Dome...