Word: hoax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Incoming Radcliffe students find in their registration folders a letter from the "Alumni Committee on Undergraduate Comportment," which cites an alleged increase in contraceptive device sales and asks the female students to "restrain the baser instincts of the menfolk." The mimeographed letter is evidently a hoax. The Harvard Lampoon denies responsibility...
...noise through arena speakers to to pump up the volume at home games. "Some of this stuff is embarrassing," coach John Calipari told the New York Daily News. "I just shook my head. I said, "Do we need to do that?' " said Calipari, who learned of the high-decibel hoax early in the season. The interesting thing for the Nets (or the New Jersey Mavericks--New Jersey and Dallas virtually swapped rosters earlier this year) is that attendance is actually up this year, from 15,564 a game to 16,017 in the 20,000-odd seat Continental Airlines Arena...
...found it humorous initially," said first-year Seth H. Hitchins. "I thought it was a hoax or prank played by another school...
...minutes he complained about the Morning News story in the court of U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch, and then launched into a diatribe against the paper in a press conference. Jones claimed the daily was practicing "the most irresponsible form of journalism" and was the victim of a hoax by a "person [who] has it in" for the paper. He relayed his client's reaction as, "Well, there's a practical joke every week." Later, Jones told TIME the disclosure was "very clever. We can't deny it, and we can't admit it." The protestations came even as defense...
DIED. HENRI NANNEN, 82, distinguished founder, editor and publisher of the popular German news magazine Stern; in Hanover, Germany. Nannen and Stern suffered a stunning embarrassment in 1983, when the magazine was duped into publishing a hoax, Hitler's "lost diaries...