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Best ECAC Town: Vermont. Burlington is a yuppie's delight. The streets are clean. The cars are clean. The people look clean. Rumor has it that Mr. Clean lives in a cottage off Lake Champlain...
...Huschle says the rumor that the club libraries are an important part of club life is untrue...
...Link Larkin (Michael St. Gerard), her "common-law boyfriend," are ostracized from their keen teen group. Her best friend, Penny Pingleton (Leslie Ann Powers), is denounced as a "checkerboard chick" for dating a black student and is tortured by a loopy psychiatrist. And Amber's mom starts a catty rumor about Tracy: "For all we know, she could be high yellow...
...Moines, this week, is a city of anxiety-filled foxholes. For the eleven campaigns in both parties actively contesting next Monday's Iowa caucuses, the emotions shift with each rumor, each leaked tracking poll, each new television commercial. Campaign chiefs monitor news reports like CIA analysts poring over satellite photos, searching for images that will give meaning to the muddled mosaic. By late this week an estimated 3,000 journalists will be in the state raising the fever pitch to Super Bowl levels...
...start the first hypermarket at an intersection just outside Annecy, in the foothills of the Alps. They named their store Carrefour, the French word for crossroads, and it was an instant success. Their prices were so low that shoppers expected them to go out of business, a rumor they gleefully perpetuated by keeping their front windows coated with whitewash. Carrefour launched dozens of outlets, as did copycats. Today France has more than 600 hypermarkets that together account for some 14% of the < country's retail trade. Carrefour, which now operates hypermarkets in Spain, Brazil and Argentina, plans to open...