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...Penn match-up has a little extra hype for a reason...
Playing up to his Buchanan Award hype, junior linebacker Dante Balestracci recorded a game-high 10 tackles and one sack. Early in the second quarter Balestracci recovered a key fumble as Columbia drove deep into Harvard territory...
...midterm elections, corporate reform, the politico’s favorite summer topic, surprisingly vanished from the legislative agenda. The reason for its absence, it seems, is that the issue was checked off Washington’s to do list before the job was really done. While media hype has always functioned as an impetus for change, once the issue falls from front-page news, so—sadly—does its legislative support. Our corporate accounting problems will not simply go away because President Bush took a brief moment to scold business malpractice. The only way we are going...
...when the public eye was closely monitoring the government’s response, legislators just could not seem to say enough about the need for corporate reform, yet now, when the media is preoccupied with other world affairs, our political leaders just twiddle their thumbs on the issue. Media hype and political convenience should not dictate public policy. With the current question of war looming, it is easy to become preoccupied with the details of our foreign policy plans. Yet we cannot forget to follow through with our domestic priorities...
...Ericsson and released as an international standard in 1998, Bluetooth has been the subject of the wildest predictions; one report issued last year said that by 2006, Bluetooth-enabled devices would generate an astounding $333 billion in revenue. So far, Bluetooth has failed to live up to its hype. Analysts and industry experts have repeatedly rolled back projections, blaming the global economic slowdown, high costs, and glitches in actually making the thing work. Yet industry insiders say there is another, quieter reason that Bluetooth is not yet a household word: the mobile-phone industry is resisting Bluetooth because the technology...