Word: rumored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...search committee member says both insiders and outsiders remain on the list, but will name no names. In the meantime, the rumor mill churns out the usual suspects...
...Shad, which resembles a tony New York City athletic club, has also been a source of rumor and intrigue among B-School students this fall. At one point last month, the campus was buzzing with the story that the administration had secretly installed a swimming pool deep in Shad's basement...
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, standing behind a bulletproof shield on which his security detail insisted, pleaded with Haitians to remain calm after enraged supporters killed one man and torched 15 buildings last night. The attack on Gonaives, 100 miles north of Port-au-Prince, followed a false rumor that junta holdover Major General Jean-Claude Duperval -- the Haitian army commander until Aristide names a replacement -- had led a coup against Aristide. This morning the reinstalled President underscored his plea by having Duperval help him raise Haiti's flag at the National Palace. Also today, U.S. forces reported the third suicide...
...Attorney General's office in Mexico City announced that a congressional aide accused his boss, fugitive Congressman Manuel Munoz Rocha, of having plotted the killing of Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Secretary-General Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu "by orders of the group" to which Rocha belonged. The news, a rumor for days before it broke, has rocked Mexican political establishment: the aide's confession also suggests the existence of a death list of other progressive PRI officials...
...know all this? Gossip, malicious rumor, purloined notes from a secret meeting? Actually, no. Just open the most recent issue of Perspective to page four, and read Sarah Song's Introspective entitled "Why Do You Have to Get All Racial Reading the Introspective is always a treat for postmoderns like us, given our love of self-referentiality. But Why Do You Have To Get All Solipsistic...