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...read the book or watched the Disney cartoon, the traditional tale is set in Sleepy Hollow, a small New York suburb, in 1799. A headless horseman haunts the outskirts of the town and chops off people's heads in revenge for having lost his own --or so goes the rumor in town. When lanky, schoolteaching Ichabod Crane comes to town, alienating the locals with his intellectual pretentiousness, he scoffs at the legend and further ruffles burly townsman Brom Bones' feathers by flirting with his girlfriend, Katrina Van Tassel. Riding home after being rebuffed by Katrina at a quilting party...
...outlawed flying wedge offense, creating havoc for the Yale defense. Also, though the Harvard Faculty had backed off, the roughness of the game continued; strong but weaker-than-Yale Harvard teams compensated for their inferiority by stepping up the physicality of the contests, leading once in 1894 to a rumor that a Yale tackle had been killed after a game. (It would later be confirmed that in fact the player was suffering simply from "contusion of the brain," and he returned to action six days later...
...calls for the "stripping down of film," donkey-boy was shot using hand-held cameras and without written dialogue or special lighting and sound. Throw in some low-tech visual effects (superimposing, slow motion, etc.), and the result is a visual spectacle unlike anything in the American film tradition. Rumor has it that Steven Spielberg is planning his own "Dogme" film, and, though doubtlessly it will conform to most of his predictable conventions, it does suggest the potential for a more down-to-earth popular cinema...
...pending notification of next of kin, but Arab newspapers have alleged the personnel may have been training in the U.S. "The facts of this case are not as important as the impression that our government is attempting to conceal the facts," the council wrote. "In order to extinguish any rumor of conspiracy in this matter, we ask that you offer full disclosure on the details of this aspect of this tragedy." But the air crash aside, there's nothing unusual about the Pentagon being a little circumspect about the mission of a group of foreign military officers here. And disclosure...
...with the coolest car does indeed get all the girls, but he's not the popular jock. He's a husky kid whom everyone calls the Commander, and the girls hang out at his house after school. "The girls love him," laments one jock. At some schools the rumor is that athletes get special treatment, that they are able to slide by in their work or their conduct because even the teachers treat them like stars. To a degree, some Webster jocks take advantage of their status, but others argue that expectations are actually higher for them. "Teachers look...