Word: hyped
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Viktor Bout may have started to believe the hype. While negotiating his most recent arms deal, Bout had his associate give the potential buyers a copy of a recent magazine article about him titled "The Merchant of Death" - just so they'd know who they were dealing with. After almost two decades of outfoxing authorities while supplying weapons to the most deadly conflicts around the globe, the former Soviet Air Force pilot let his guard down just as a complex web of international police agencies were closing in on him. The potential buyers said they represented the leftist Colombian rebel...
...just like that, Dinc is back on the bench. You know for all the hype about him coming in, he's shown absolutely nothing on the floor for the Crimson this season. [Columbia 37, Harvard...
...Hillary, if she emerged as the Democratic candidate, a statement which bordered on treason from the perspective of the Democratic Party. The campaign also sent out the Black Eyed Peas’ “Yes We Can” video in their official e-mails, thus promoting the hype. Finally, the campaign has consistently portrayed Obama as the idealized “candidate of change” far more than they have highlighted his impressive policy proposals. While “change” is indeed a fundamental part of Obama’s platform, failing to adequately link...
...schedule. Up from 12 games over the last two seasons, this spring’s 14 include the usual tough Ivy matchups—Cornell and Princeton back to back—in addition to a game at Duke that falls between Penn and Denver.As if it needed more hype, the game against the Big Red—a perennial Ivy juggernaut—will be played at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Mass., the site of both this and next year’s NCAA Lacrosse Championships.“The fact that we’re at Duke adds...
...This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] Should Win Shouldn't Win No Country for Old Men A finely twisted horror-crime-western film that moves beyond genre There Will Be Blood Geysers of hype fuel this oilman epic. But psychologically, it's a big, dry well Johnny Depp Sweeney Todd He's fierce, wondrous, haunted, funny, scary--and on key Daniel Day-Lewis There Will Be Blood A superb actor in an opaque role--it's all snarl, no soul Julie Christie Away from Her She radiates the vague cunning of dementia, its creeping oblivion Marion...