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Last week Bush said no decision has been made on the Aegis. The rumor mongers have him leaning in favor of the deal, and he essentially told Qian the U.S. has the right to sell Taiwan any arms it likes. At the same time, he sought to reassure Qian: "I am going to look you in the eye and tell you that we can have good relations with China. Nothing we do is a threat to you, and I want you to tell that to your leadership." Bush said he was conveying an approach that would be "firm" but "respectful...
...Last week, the assembled leaders relished a new era in Arab relations, holding a non-emergency summit for the first time in 14 years. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi pitched a tent outside a palace and visited a donut shop during a surprise walkabout. A rumor swirled around Amman that Saddam himself was planning to attend. It would have made an electrifying appearance. But he failed to show...
Mary Robinson would like to kill once and for all the rumor that she ever coveted the post of U.N. secretary-general. That speculation, which began almost as soon as she assumed the role of U.N. high commissioner for human rights three and a half years ago, arose "only because I've had a very high profile as a woman," she says. Never one to mince words, Robinson is frank about just how ill-suited she would be for the top job. "I'm not a skilled diplomat in the kind of compromises a secretary-general must be prepared...
...What is most interesting about this story is the source," wrote Slate.com in reference to The Crimson's exclusive. MSNBC indicated that the Globe had finally succumbed to pressure to confirm the story it originally dismissed: "It, too, printed the rumor report on Sunday," the organization wrote on its website...
Last month a rumor shot through the legal community that O'Connor would announce her retirement within a few weeks; that came on top of her widely reported dismay, at an election-night party, over news that Florida had gone for Gore. It was "terrible," she said; her husband explained that she wants to retire but not with a Democrat choosing her successor. She's expressed the same desire to friends. Another report, even more recent, had Rehnquist pledging to take a chair at the University of Arizona law school next fall. The guessing game comes in the wake...