Word: rumors
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Diving Lessons By HANNAH BEECH Seoul China failed to score against every team it played in this year's Cup. No surprise, considering this was the country's first time in the finals. But fans back home are whispering that the team wasn't merely incompetent. Rumor has it that players, including star defender Fan Zhiyi, threw the match against Costa Rica, a 2-0 defeat, to make a little cash. A boom in illegal sports gambling has tainted China's soccer league, which uncovered a slew of crooked referees and players fixing games last year. But Fan adamantly denies...
...little—we think of our fellow classmates. And so we amass acquaintances at Harvard, thanks to a combination of tolerance, ambition and Cambridge-specific social demands. In an effort to survive in this cutthroat atmosphere, we keep our friends close but our enemies closer. Rumor has it that Harvard students get a lot nicer and a lot more tolerable once they graduate. Go figure—removed from this academically and socially competitive environment, we discover how lonely and miserable it is when you think you’re better than everyone else...
Collecting maps is a hobby of Knafel’s that goes back about 20 years to a piece of property on Martha’s Vineyard. When Knafel purchased the Martha’s Vineyard property, which contained a small pond, he heard rumor that the pond had at one time been open to the ocean. Interested in finding out if there was truth to this tale, Knafel acquired an old map of the area. The map indeed showed the land with the pond open to the ocean...
...check her own baggage. Even if you were a victim in high school, you shouldn't see your daughter's plight as an opportunity to exact revenge, since her experience may be more or less traumatic than yours. Nor should moms ignore this behavior; verbal aggression and rumor spreading have been linked to suicide in teen-girl victims of such abuse...
...Summer break begins now for Gossip Guy. Still, he’s struggling to find employment: He may work on the assembly line in a lies factory, make copies in a rumor emporium or answer the phones at an innuendo mill...