Word: rumored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mayfield's brother Curtis R. Dickson, who has defended Grant's right to keep the killing of her mother private, said yesterday that reports that Grant would attend Tufts were "just a rumor...
...alumnus has such a reputation about hispast that his high school crimes continue to serveas dining hall conversations a year after hisgraduation. One rumor I heard had him busted forselling cocaine in high school, but his admissionwas guaranteed by his father's $2 million gift tothe University. Another version claims that he wasmerely friends with a drug dealer andand at onepoint helped his friend break into someone's houseto steal a stereo. (The dealer apparently had somedebts.) Either way, rumor has it that he gotcaught. Who knows the real truth...
...greatest stories I heard in mysearch for indiscretion was that of a femalecocaine dealer, who continued her transactionswhile at Harvard. She was apparently so helpful toa certain all-male organization that they kiddedthey'd make an exception for her and allow her tojoin. Of course that was only a rumor...
...course, the name of former professor JosephS. Nye, now an Assistant Secretary of Defense, isalways in the rumor mill, although many said thisweek they doubt that he would accept the postafter being passed over several years ago whenCarnesale was chosen to replace Dillon Professorof International Affairs Robert D. Putnam...
...real Gina Grant. Despite an occasional press release, the girl has stood apart from the storm, watching her self-proclaimed defenders on campus and in the media protest against the reticent Harvard administration. With both Grant and Harvard remaining mute, both sides are left to rely on rumor and second- hand sources to assess the case. And we find debaters eliciting the image of Gina Grant that most agrees with their gut prejudices about the American judicial system...