Word: rumors
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Restic's unique offense, known as the multiflex, was perhaps the most confusing playbook ever unleashed on a collegiate team. Rumor has it, in fact, that it was based on the fact that only Harvard players would be able to understand...
...country last month to see fiance David Copperfield perform, local current-affairs show Witness sought an interview. Her Australian agent asked holiday rates: $30,000 for one hour. That's Witness's story. Ken Smith, proprietor of Schiffer's Australian agency, dismisses it as a "pie-in-the-sky rumor." So no interview--but Melbourne businessman Jean Mazloun says he struck a $280,000 deal with Schiffer's New York management for her to appear at the Australian designer-collections parade. "And it was worth every cent," says Mazloun. Schiffer's New York agent, like his Aussie counterpart, swears...
There is deep anxiety at Langley that Deutch's grab for power is designed to advance his own career. The rumor circulating in Langley is that his secret game plan is to take over the Defense Department if Clinton wins a second term and if Perry resigns to return to private life. Deutch's senior aides insist that for now, his power is the spies' best friend. "At the end of the day, are we better off with John Deutch at the CIA?" asks his deputy Tenet. "The answer is yes." Considering how low the agency has sunk, what...
...characterize true mavericks, Forbes, whose stage presence never exactly sparkled during the campaign, will be the host on Saturday Night Live this weekend. Says Forbes: "I wanted to see if I could do a better impersonation of me than they were doing." No sketches are yet in place, but rumor has it New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, a childhood friend who opted for Dole, may want to tune out. CHER AND CHER-ALIKE...
Despite months of war rumors, it came as a shock when the first explosions shattered Grbavica's peace on April 4, 1992. "Around noon the shooting started," says Rabija. "Alen was out, and we were afraid because we didn't know where he was." To her relief, he made his way back home through sporadic gunfire, and the Oprhals spent the next few days indoors, making and receiving telephone calls filled with worry and rumor. "Nobody knew what was going on," says Kruno. In fact, Bosnian Serb nationalists, backed by the Yugoslav army, were firing the first shots in their...