Word: rumoring
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...that time, the president assumed control of the editorials, the secretary wrote the "Fact and Rumor" column, and the managing editor was responsible for everything else. Thus, although the managing editor did the lion's share of the work, setting up the paper and making assignments, it was the president who guided the paper's policies, subject to the general consent of the executive board. Henry James, class of 1899 and a former president of The Crimson, wrote this description of a typical day at the paper in the December, 1899, Harvard Graduates' Magazine...
...affair with Gennifer Flowers. He's also alleged to have admitted under oath that he gave Lewinsky presents. The gag order in the Paula Jones case means no one can go on the record to confirm or deny this, but it's all grist to the Washington rumor mill...
...accused of sexual dalliance with a visitor to the Oval Office--an underage visitor, at that. What's needed, the spin doctor (a coolly cynical Robert De Niro) decrees, is a splendid little war to divert the populace. None being handy, one will have to be invented out of rumor and falsified electronic imagery...
...standard for having confidence in the students we have on campus. I am frankly very tired of the hoops that one must jump through in order to gain access to the buildings of my College. I hope that universal key card access will not just continue as a rumor but will finally come to fruition this year--it is time that the administration trust the students of Harvard with this simple privilege. Karima A. Ridgley...
...couple of the songs stretch all possible limits on credibility, such as the opening "There's a Rumor in St. Petersburg." Here, the peasants belt into a song that carries the dubious refrain "Since the revolution, our lives have been so gray." The staging itself doesn't have any delusions about its purpose: hundreds of Russian peasants drop their work, disperse from their bread line and take up synchronized folk dancing in one of the more laughable spectacles of the film. Yet Anastasia--unlike Pocahontas, for example--makes no pretense about adhering to history, and we accept...