Word: rumored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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EVEN BEFORE HILLARY CLINTON'S NEW BOOK, IT TAKES A VILlage, hit the stores, Washington heard the rumor: the book was ghosted. The charge so exasperated the White House that several journalists, including TIME correspondent James Carney, were invited to Mrs. Clinton's private study to check the manuscript, including legal pads covered with her handwriting. Says Carney: "There is no doubt Mrs. Clinton wrote great parts of the book...
...SOME DEGREE ALL GUNFIGHTER westerns are meditations on celebrity. As the hero proceeds along his increasingly corpse-strewn path, making one vivid assertion after another of his deadly prowess, he becomes a public figure, a source of rumor, legend and awe, just like a movie star. His reputation--always preceding him, simultaneously distancing and entrancing his public--becomes both a source of strength, making tremulous the hands of his enemies, and a source of danger, in that it encourages people who want a piece of his fame to form an entourage around him. Or challenge him to a deadly encounter...
...differences, "many House Republicans are beginning to fear that there may never be a deal," Burleigh says. "It's beginning to look possible that they could keep the government running with a continuing resolution through the election year, which would give Clinton a great campaign issue." The other budget rumor circling the Hill, says Burleigh, is that congressional Republicans are trying to use the Bosnian deployment debate to wring concessions from Clinton on the budget...
...differences, "many House Republicans are beginning to fear that there may never be a deal," Burleigh says. "It's beginning to look possible that they could keep the government running with a continuing resolution through the election year, which would give Clinton a great campaign issue." The other budget rumor circling the Hill, says Burleigh, is that congressional Republicans are trying to use the Bosnian deployment debate to wring concessions from Clinton on the budget...
...Thompson and Troy Jones. Harvard just never throws the combination. The team does not have a two-back proset offense, which would allow Hu and Thompson to appear in tandem. While the Harvard coaching staff may be reluctant to utilize Hu as a lead blocker lest he be injured, rumor is that Hu outbenches most of the offensive line...