Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...modem compete mouse to mouse with mainstream media. (Drudge's publishing empire is the living room of his Hollywood apartment.) But many of the Net's would-be Woodwards and Bernsteins are journalistic novices and wouldn't think, say, to ask court or police sources to confirm a rumor. Character assassination, like everything else online, happens at warp speed, which is why some say there's no way to correct damage to one's reputation--or protect one's privacy...
EDGARTOWN, Mass: Rumor has it President Clinton will get 51st birthday cheers tonight from actor Ted Danson and his actress wife Mary Steenburgen (like Clinton, an Arkansas native) at their 19th century farmhouse on Martha's Vineyard. The White House is neither confirming nor denying that singer James Taylor, also a Vineyard local, will attend. Best presidential present: The settlement of the UPS strike...
...anonymous source, apparently a U.S. intelligence agent, "whose reliability is more than dubious." Historians have roundly criticized the Vatican for maintaining ties to the Utasha regime, which exterminated hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies during the war. Without further evidence, the charge stands largely as rumor. The money itself, if the Vatican ever held it, may long since have been returned to Utashas who fled to Spain and Argentina after the regime's collapse. But while those rumors persisted, the intelligence source speculated they were a "smokescreen to cover the fact that the treasure remains in its original...
...packed conference room abuzz with rumor of his impending resignation, Governor William F. Weld '66 emphatically declared his intention to pursue office beyond the Massachusetts State House...
According to a professor in the political science department at UCLA, the idea was informally discussed at the end of a recent faculty meeting. Although there was no formal vote on the subject, there has been "a lot of rumor and innuendo," the professor said...