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Piaf had oceans of talent to back up the hype, earning her a global following. Since 1997, her greatest hits album has sold over 4 million copies, half of them outside France. "That's a kind of international recognition that today's French-language artists just don't achieve," says Cécile Prévost-Thomas, a sociologist specializing in French song. Piaf's success abroad reminds the country of a time when its cultural exports could achieve popularity while remaining defiantly French. The passing of that era is lamented amid the proliferation of American Idol?style reality shows...
...killings were actually happening, the media was exploding into the American consciousness with sitcoms, high-production-value news reports, and, of course, updates on the war in Vietnam. The Zodiac Killer took full advantage of the country’s growing addiction to TV, and one could argue that hype and attention fueled his random acts of violence. In the end, the film indicts mass media nearly as much as the killer, himself. Fincher portrays the media not as a fact-finding source, but as a for-profit company that gives voice and confidence to the wrong people...
Simpkins, however, is not entirely convinced by all the Kagan hype. “It would have been great to see how she would have dealt with what some people have coined ‘the imperial presidency,’” Simpkins says. “But there’s got to be something wrong with her. Otherwise she’s just too perfect...
...billion endowment to $25.9 billion before his departure. His success at Harvard led the University to initially invest $500 million with Meyer’s new fund—Convexity Capital Management. But so far, Meyer’s new fund has failed to live up to the hype surrounding his record-breaking start. All of its various investment strategy options fell short of their benchmark indices by about 4.5 percent in 2006, the Boston Globe reported last Thursday. University spokesman John D. Longbrake declined to comment on whether or not Harvard’s investment has stayed with Convexity...
...officials at the briefing (who declined to be named but who included an intelligence analyst and an explosives expert) were at pains to distance themselves from what one called the "tremendous hype" in Washington - an apparent reference to recent U.S. claims of Iranian involvement in Iraq, which some fear might be a prelude to aggressive action against Tehran. The briefing occurred in the context of increased American pressure on the Iranian government. And the Bush Administration has claimed that the strife in Iraq since the summer of 2003 can be laid largely at the feet of foreign actors - from Arab...