Word: rumors
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...years, Opus Dei has been a rumor magnet. Successful and secretive, it has been accused of using lavish riches and carefully cultivated clout to do everything from propping up Francisco Franco's Spanish dictatorship to pushing through its founder's premature sainthood to planting conservative minions in governments from Warsaw to Washington. Brown's treatment of the group had seemed to represent an untoppable high-sewage mark--that is, until the movie trailer appeared. Says Juan Manuel Mora, director of Opus Dei's communications department in Rome: "Reading a print version is one thing. Seeing the color images is another...
...parable for the making of Show Your Bones? The new Yeah Yeah Yeahs' rumor is that they might break up. Their publicist swears it's not true, and here's hoping she's right. This band is just getting started...
...This week, the Harvard men’s and women’s fencing teams are competing at the NCAA Championships in Houston—and both have a legitimate shot at a national title. They’re not televised on CBS, but rumor has it that Harvard’s fencers are pretty good. The teams boast two Junior World Champions, and three Crimson fencers will compete in April’s Junior World Championships in South Korea. The women rank in at No. 3 nationally...
...would say, “You think you’re the illest baller in the land? / Let’s see what happens when I slice off your shooting hand!” Then I would remove a samurai blade and cut off his right hand. BL: Rumor has it that you’ve taken the NCAA’s RPI rankings and applied them to the world of juicing. Can you explain? CT: Certainly. My preferred method for evaluating girls is based on three criteria. 1) Conference: Who she runs with/who her friends are. 2) Record: Looks...
...There is a risk of trying to top off rumor as hard news,” said Gregory M. Schmidt ’06, whose blog Team Zebra covered the UC presidential elections. “But I think that what most of the blogs offer is individual perspective...