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...movies like "Windows" and "Cruising" inform us that gay people are pathetic, or savage, or both. To the Federal government and the majority of states, homosexual acts are an "abomination". To parents and friends homosexuality is an accusation, never a reality. It is the lowest of insults, a shadowy rumor which must not stain us at any cost. But proving heteroxexuality takes hard work. After all, you never know...
...protest, based largely on rumor, ignores the facts of the case and may be unproductive to the future of the department. Levine has never done research in or taught courses in Jewish studies. Rosovsky states that he has discussed offering the department chair to Nathan I. Huggins, professor of history at Columbia University; he has never offered the position to Levine. Such arguments on the part of the students are irresponsible at best...
Does anyone really care about the regular seasons in the NBA and the NHL? Sure, Larry Bird's got enough moves to get anybody a little excited, and the Rangers are on a hot streak, but none of it means anything until the playoffs. Besides, rumor has it that the grass at Fenway is starting to turn green...
...will fall far short of supplying the shock treatment that many economic experts believe is necessary to break the whirling inflationary cycle. Meanwhile, there are indications that White House uncertainty is making inflation worse. Said one Senate Banking Committee staffer about credit controls: "The Administration blew it." The mere rumor of controls, he said, caused businesses to borrow extra money so that they would have it before any controls took effect. Similarly, Treasury Secretary G. William Miller and Anti-Inflation Adviser Alfred Kahn acknowledged in a letter to heads of 500 major corporations that some companies seem to be raising...
...riddled with dissension and palace intrigue. Despite official Afghan denials, for instance, there were persistent reports that Karmal's Vice President, Sultan Ali Kishtmand, had perhaps died in Moscow, where he was supposedly flown for medical treatment following a Shootout among members of the Revolutionary Council. Another rumor, that Karmal's own younger brother and adviser Mahmoud Baryalai, had also died of bullet wounds, was squelched only after he popped up on Soviet television with assurances that "I am alive and well...