Word: rumors
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Rumor has it that the Harvard’s men’s crew teams tried to make fish tanks out of the women’s boathouse showers on two consecutive nights last week. The heavyweights’ attempt apparently resulted in the deaths of over 100 goldfish, while the lightweights’—which used plastic bags to contain the fish—preserved some of them until morning. The two events mark a surge in prank wars between the Harvard and Radcliffe teams that date back to 1972. But in the past year, these pranks...
...distributors, LifeStyles condoms are traditionally one of the top three highest selling condom brands on the market. UHS also contacted distributors who noted that claims to condom durability are often matters of personal preference. Before 2003, UHS distributed only Durex condoms. Due to student response caused by a similar rumor about the brand’s reliability, UHS switched to LifeStyles. The decision was then made according to student response to provide LifeStyles condoms, even though they were slightly more expensive. Ballinger said, “If students preferred them, we found that they would be more likely...
...Drug arrests are so rare at Harvard, they quickly rise to the top of the student rumor mill, and the front pages of campus media...
...writing yours? AS: I was writing my own book, and if I had any other writers in mind, it was to write something unlike the books they had written, even though I admired them. THC: Any authors in particular? AS: Philip Caputo’s “A Rumor of War” and George Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia.” This isn’t a memoir, but Tim O’Brien’s novel “Going After Cacciato.” THC: Do you think you?...
...Julia Roberts Emerging unscathed from a rumor-filled pause in her career, Roberts, last seen in Hook in 1991, returned to the screen in The Pelican Brief, which opened huge in December. Earlier, in a spectacularly surprising and appealing move, she wed Lyle Lovett, music's quirkiest and most talented un-hunk...