Word: rumoring
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...White House chief of staff Josh Bolten is hinting that there are going to be some more changes in the works. The big rumor is he's going to fire President Bush and Vice President Cheney." JIMMY KIMMEL...
...pledges a cheap ploy to get the government to overlook any wrongdoing. "It's just ridiculous. It's an insult to the public and it is unprecedented," says Professor Jang Hasung, dean of Korea University Business School, calling the moves a bad precedent for other companies: "Now the rumor is who is next, and how much should they contribute...
...virtually seamless first year of good friends, great professors, solid grades, and a fulfilling extracurricular activity—The Crimson. Like a 15-year-old virgin in her first relationship, I was ready for my promise ring to Cambridge.Then this year, something I had only thought to be rumor hit: sophomore slump. Suddenly, work got harder, relationships got more complicated, and I slipped into an increasingly dark depression. By the end of first semester, I had suffered through Moral Reasoning 50, one badly broken heart, and 40 thankless hours a week at The Crimson. Things seemed desperate, and I considered...
...years, Opus Dei has been a rumor magnet. Successful and secretive, it has been accused of using lavish riches and carefully cultivated clout to do everything from propping up Francisco Franco's Spanish dictatorship to pushing through its founder's premature sainthood to planting conservative minions in governments from Warsaw to Washington. Brown's treatment of the group had seemed to represent an untoppable high-sewage mark--that is, until the movie trailer appeared. Says Juan Manuel Mora, director of Opus Dei's communications department in Rome: "Reading a print version is one thing. Seeing the color images is another...
Prior to last year's Papal election, rumor held that Opus might end up brokering the conclave, but it turned out Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger did not need a broker. And the new Pope may be less concerned with aiding Opus than with strengthening the church's hierarchy. Nonetheless, Opus' second in command, Fernando Ocáriz, worked closely with Ratzinger on one of his last great conservative gestures as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: Dominus Jesus, a reassertion of the primacy of Catholicism over other religions. Other members are "consultors" to that key office, and Opus...