Word: hyped
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Following the media hype from less sexy publications like Newsweek and The Boston Globe, H-Bomb printed two issues in 2004 and 2005, warranting praise from Playboy: “Harvard—not as square as we remember it.” After featuring an essay written by a S.L.U.T (Sexually Liberated Urban Twenty-something) and a piece on free Trojans and those who “continue to use such shitty condoms on a regular basis,” the magazine then folded for a year due to lack of leadership when many of its earliest contributors graduated...
...Homeland Hype...
...high school straight to the NBA or both.But while Vaccaro has plenty of admirers, he has no shortage of critics either, especially in the NCAA. He has been portrayed as a basketball mobster, a blight on the integrity of the game who has brought about the age where NBA hype starts in middle school and teenagers are drawn away from the amateur game by the allure of multimillion shoe deals and signing bonuses.To Vaccaro, the claims of his critics are representative of the hypocrisy of “the system,” which cries foul over the degradation...
...heavier stake in recruiting key soccer players, to name just one—the Crimson is making sure to stay focused on the team’s mantra of “one game at a time,” instead of getting caught up in the hype. “We need to keep focusing on making the Ivy League first because that’s our ticket into the playoffs,” Hoff said. “Secondary is our ranking at the end of the year.” Hahn agreed with his co-captain about...
After Kid Nation debuts on Sept. 19--assuming it does--the hubbub could fade or snowball. (As of press time, CBS wasn't screening the program to critics, perhaps to keep the hype building.) But even without injuries, the show was bound to be controversial, and not just for putting kids in the TV spotlight. Rather, the show's premise--sending kids off on their own, to take risks, experiment and possibly fail, without parental intervention--runs against the spirit of modern child rearing...