Word: rumored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...faculty's vote came during the same week that The New Republic reported a rumor that Ogletree had not actually authored an article published under his name in the Harvard Law Review's 1993 issue...
Although the New Republic's article concluded that the rumor was false, it contained a host of statements demeaning to Ogletree, attributed to an unidentified professor or professors...
...Pretty disgraceful" is how Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz described the New Republic's article. "To knowingly publish a false rumor is the worst form of yellow journalism...
...screen composer John Williams (Star Wars, Jurassic Park) is leaving the Boston Pops at the end of this year, and the orchestra is looking for a new leader -- preferably someone with star power, a marquee name. Among the people still in the running for the Pops job, according to rumor: Top 40- esque entertainers Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Quincy Jones and Marvin Hamlisch. There are also more conventional candidates up for the post, including conductors Erich Kunzel of the Cincinnati Pops and John Mauceri of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra...
...Republican consultant told a network newscaster that his job was to make sure Hillary Clinton is discredited before the 1996 campaign. Each day anti- Hillary talking points go out to talk-show hosts. The rumor machine is cranking out bogus stories about her face (lifted), her sex life (either nonexistent or all too active) and her marriage (a sham). Many of the stories are attributed to the Secret Service in an attempt to give the tales credibility. She denies the yarn about her throwing a lamp (or Bible or vase), then wonders about the sources. "Why are they telling lies...