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Missing in all this repetition of the positive stereotype is any mention of contradictory information. I have yet to read about Harvard's recruiting and admissions practices for potential big-sport athletes. Is the rumor correct that these people get special treatment in Byerly Hall...
...traditional response to such allegations is that Harvard gives "special consideration" to applicants who are talented in any number of ways: piccolo players, journalists, and actors get the same treatment as linemen and forwards. But is the rumor true that athletes get even more special treatment than the others--that Harvard does not have to sacrifice as much academic ability when it admits piccolo players as when it admits athletes...
Eastwood's campaign seems to have shaken the mayor. Waving a letter from a local woman, Townsend says, "There's a rumor that tour-bus companies are selling tickets to future city council meetings. It's not appropriate." Candidate Clint is not falling for any of that. On the tea-and-cracker circuit around town, he is setting forth his position on burning local issues like "second kitchens." A tradition in Carmel, second kitchens have been put in many cottages to allow older residents to live at home while renting out the rest of the house. A tough new ordinance...
...pilgrimage to Moscow. House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who engineered the most recent defeat of the contra aid package, termed the invasion a "tremendous blunder" and disgustedly called Ortega "a bumbling, incompetent Marxist-Leninist, a Communist." Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont quipped sarcastically that he "had heard a rumor that Daniel Ortega is secretly on the payroll of one of our intelligence agencies as a lobbyist for the Administration...
...confuse Soviet weapons planners, the U.S. public and Congress are also being deceived. Four U.S. Senators have asked the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to investigate. Defense Department officials disclaim knowledge of any such program, and their denials could be sincere: one intelligence expert suggests that a rumor about distorted data could itself be a U.S. disinformation technique...