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Pretty Funny, Guys: Halfnight himself missed the Brown game with a touch of the flu and a bad back, but several sources spread a wild rumor that his absence was due to some sort of an irregular heart condition and Crimson officials had benched him to avoid any possible liability...
...Rumor had it that the officer escorting Ryan on the rounds would show up at Holyoke Center around 6 p.m., two hours into the patroller's 4 p.m.-to-midnight shift...
...line of workstations based on the PowerPC 601 chip (another term for microprocessor). While the chip itself costs only half as much as a Pentium chip from Intel Corp., the cost of the IBM machines is driven up by power features and priced toward the workstation market. Rumor has it that both IBM and Apple will release PowerPC-based personal computers next year...
...general gracing their ticket. And in many ways he is the ideal candidate. He is a true American success story, he has strong credentials on race issues, and he is one of the most popular military leaders since Dwight Eisenhower. While his domestic views are an unknown quantity, rumor has it that he is progressive at heart...
...could possibly replace such an institution? Various names were bruited in the rumor mill -- stage actors, a few Hollywood eminences, novelist John Updike. But the winner turned out to be a dark horse: Pulitzer-prizewinning memoirist and New York Times columnist Russell Baker, 68, who originally declined the offer by saying, "I don't want to be the man who succeeds Alistair Cooke. I want to be the man who succeeds the man who succeeds Alistair Cooke." Baker was won over by the zeal of Christopher Lydon, a newscaster at Boston's WGBH, the station that produces Masterpiece Theatre. Lydon...