Word: rumoring
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Never mind the rumor that the administration’s fear of Harvard students working themselves to sleep-deprived deaths if the libraries stay open ‘round the clock is behind the limited hours. The primary reason why the libraries shut their doors at 1 a.m. is the financial burden associated with staffing a library system that is open 24 hours a day. There is also the issue of setting aside time for the maintenance of facilities and buildings in order to create a proper environment for studying. Starting a couple of years ago, however, in an effort...
There’s been an awful lot of bad news recently. The war in Afghanistan isn’t going particularly well, the FBI has no idea who’s sending us anthrax, and every few weeks there’s the rumor of another opus by bin Laden & Co. We live in a scarier world now, and it’s becoming clear that we can’t go back. We can’t build a wall or hire more Homeland Security police and hope the problem will go away...
...infection, they have found they had drawn the circle too tight. "We've got a strategy to fight the war on the home front," he said, but no one could tell you what the strategy was, and with good reason. Events were moving so quickly that today's rumor was tomorrow's headline, and no one wanted to lock in a plan and then be caught off guard again. There was persistent dispute over whether the anthrax terrorists were domestic militants or Islamic extremists--which made nailing down a strategy all but impossible and surely unwise...
There was also a bit of hostility in the pool. Brown took a game off of Harvard, 10-8, on October 20, but Harvard put any rumor of its inferiority to rest with a 10-1 thrashing of the Bears last weekend...
...attacks. The MOA is a ghost mall, with visitors down at least 30% and more on weekdays. Conventions have been canceled, tourists are afraid to fly, the national economy is unsteady, and the largest state-worker strike in Minnesota history just ended after two weeks. Worse yet, a rumor has been floating around that the MOA is next on al-Qaeda's hit list. And a widely circulated e-mail warning that malls will be hit on Halloween has people particularly worried...