Word: rumores
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Rumor had it that the seven-minute walk from the Charles to Widener was soon to be instantaneous, as Google launched its bold book-scanning project. Seen by many as a noble, if dauntingly large venture, the project promised to provide accessibility and protection for the world’s literature in digital form. Unfortunately, over 300 publishing companies did not agree; and their opposition found legal sanction in a 125 million dollar settlement, halting the scanning of material still under copyright. Harvard University, which has been cooperating with Google and four other libraries, decided to extract itself from...
...Washington rumor mill suggests that the Summers thing is quite serious,” Burns said...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—If Barack Obama wins today’s election, former University President Lawrence H. Summers could be selected for his second term as Secretary of the Treasury as soon as this Friday—at least according to the D.C. rumor mill...
...with the 24-minute cycle. The media wanted drama, and he gave it to them. Here's a surprise V.P.! Here's a new message! My campaign's off! It's back on! Obama, for all his campaign's use of social networking, online fund-raising and e-mail-rumor debunking, ran a comparatively sedate media campaign...
...world premiere of “The Communist Dracula Pageant” creates an image of madness that is both entertainingly and shockingly outlandish.The players will perform this unbelievable truth through Nov. 9. The audience is told near the beginning that “with the exception of rumor, everything here is fact. Apart from all the very colorful bits, it is imagination; this is how we create a history.”Performed on a relatively sparse stage at the Zero Arrow Theatre, the show frequently transitions from the Ceausescu’s “kangaroo court?...