Word: confirming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anson Kaye, a spokesperson for Coakley, said he could not confirm nor deny that a grand jury had been seated in the Byerly rape, citing the confidentiality of the proceedings...
...said as she stood near the border with her 75-year-old aunt. "I was almost crawling at the end." But reports trickling out of the province from aid workers and refugees described a horror show of massacres, forced marches and destroyed villages. The tales were hard to confirm, but early CIA findings seemed to buttress the allegations. News of the possible atrocities set off the spin machine at the White House, where officials were worried that Americans might start to believe the air strikes had somehow precipitated the killings. Milosevic would have carried them out regardless...
...startled. The surprise may come as further Microsoft contributions are tallied in coming months. Sources tell TIME that the committee's top officials have asked the software giant for $1 million--which, if delivered, would place it among the uppermost donors to either party. A committee spokeswoman wouldn't confirm the amount but said it was expected that Microsoft would give "a very considerable amount" beyond the table...
...While no one from the University was available to confirm the engagement of Lukey, who was not present at this week's meetings, she served as Harvard's counsel in the Clare Dalton tenure case, which ended in a $260,000 settlement in 1992. Dalton, a former HLS professor, sued Harvard in the late 1980s claiming gender discrimination...
...false rumor, you know that the strongest impulse is to build your own rumor mill, preferably out of common household items. So why not start a local Harvard rumor? Not a rumor about an individual, of course, since that would be far too simple for skeptics to confirm or deny--and if it ever got back that you were the one who started the rumor, it could mean trouble for you indeed. No, if you're going to start a rumor, don't just make it gossip. Make it legendary...