Word: rumores
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Hurricane Katrina, they lived in New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward; now the closest thing they have to a home is a collection of cots and stuffed bags on the floor of the Astrodome. Waiting on line to apply for a Red Cross debit card, the couple heard a rumor that they needed a photo ID to qualify for a card. While Green remained in the queue with the well-behaved children, Clark rushed back to the Astrodome to search their belongings for some form of ID, returning several minutes later breathless and empty-handed. Still, they decided to take...
...anchor in Washington--that there were thousands of people stranded, starving and in some cases dying in the New Orleans Convention Center, a story that had been all over the media that morning. Again, Chertoff suggested reporters were exaggerating. "If you talk to someone and you get a rumor or you get someone's anecdotal version of something," he said, "I think it's dangerous to extrapolate it to all over the place." Demonstrating the kind of tenacious dedication to a line of argument that made him a successful Mob prosecutor, Chertoff reprised the same theme last week...
...divide, and it can unite. In the first hours after the stampede that killed more than 1,000 Shi'ite pilgrims in Baghdad last Wednesday, many of the survivors reflexively blamed Sunni terrorists. Surely, they reasoned, it must have been a Sunni agent provocateur who had started the rumor?of a suicide bomber at large among the tens of thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims crossing the Bridge of Imams?that had sparked the stampede...
...whether Rove will pay the price for his role in the Plame debacle? Rove is a political strategist who knows precisely what to say?or not to say?to keep himself out of hot water. He knew exactly what he was doing with his campaign of innuendo and rumor. Unfortunately, somebody else is going to end up taking the fall for Rove's vindictiveness. Rove should be fired immediately, but it will be hard for the President to oust his most trusted adviser. Jennifer Denny Peoria, Illinois...
...whether Rove will pay the price for his role in the Plame debacle? Rove is a political strategist who knows precisely what to say - or not to say - to keep himself out of hot water. He knew exactly what he was doing with his campaign of innuendo and rumor. Unfortunately, somebody else is going to end up taking the fall for Rove's vindictiveness. Rove should be fired immediately, but it will be hard for the President to oust his most trusted adviser. Jennifer Denny Peoria, Illinois, U.S. The media are making the Plame case far too complicated. Bush...