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Humorist Andy S. Borowitz '80 recently wrote a piece for Harvard Magazine about the Harvard-Clinton rumor. Presented with the Gore option, he said he thought that if the vice president won the popular vote but not the Electoral College, he would be in a good position to sit out four years and run again...
...mail message to remind me: "Missy: After you went to college, Mom and I found stacks of dirty dishes under the bed, left from when you took all meals in seclusion." Given the man's tendency to exaggerate (he is also the source of that "preferred pimply boyfriends" rumor), I categorically denied his charge that during high school I emerged "only to use the phone...
...Rumor had it that you went to Harvard...
...army. In the city of Ramallah, they happened upon a funeral procession for a 17-year-old boy shot the day before by Israeli troops. Identifying the two as Israelis--the giveaway was the yellow license plate on their car--the impassioned crowd went after them. A rumor spread that they belonged to Israel's so-called Arabized forces, who disguise themselves as Palestinians to hunt radicals on Israel's wanted list...
...great record. There is the never-released Ronettes' version of Harry Nilsson's "Paradise," which for years existed only as a rumor. And an unknown April Stevens solo cut - she was usually half of a brother-sister act with sibling Nino Tempo - called "Why Can't a Boy and Girl Just Stay In Love." There is an obscure B-side known as "Torpedo Rock," a deliberately obnoxious instrumental, typical of what Spector sometimes placed on flip sides so the impact of the A-side wouldn't be diluted...