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...Want to opt out? If politely asking to have your listing removed doesn't work, don't expect a lawsuit to help much either. According to Daniel Solove, a George Washington University law professor and author of the forthcoming book, The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor and Privacy On the Internet (coming out in October from Yale University Press), it's difficult to argue that these sites are either defamatory or a breach of privacy since the information is publicly available on the Internet. "It's very problematic, but it's also very difficult to solve," he says...
...latest terror to strike Iraq? Rumors of giant flesh-eating badgers in Basra. Locals even say the British army planted them. While the Brits have publicly denied the story, a new cell-phone video of the body of one of the clawed creatures has been fueling the rumor on the Internet...
...difference there is that Tennessee Williams didn't sleep with his leading ladies. Bergman was a famously imperious charmer, and had long liaisons with Harriet Andersson, then Bibi Andersson, then Liv Ullmann. There was a rumor that all seven actresses in his film All These Women were former Bergman mistresses...
...already had a lot of children and a lot of women, and money had to be paid out. A good deal of my filmmaking in earlier days came from lack of money." The movies' greatest "woman's director" was also a great lover and careless discarder of women. Rumor had it that the seven lead actresses in his 1964 comedy All These Women were all former Bergman mistresses...
...classic elephant-in-the-room syndrome," says one Western banker who advises the State Investment Company. "Where does he sit? Anywhere he wants, sure. But he's got to be very careful that he doesn't squash anything when he does." The mere whiff of a rumor that, say, Beijing may shift part of its foreign-exchange holdings from dollars into euros has rattled world currency markets several times in the past year...