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Last month, you publicly quashed coup rumors. Are you worried about another military intervention? I am the Minister of Defense, [a position held concurrently with the role of Prime Minister]. I work very closely with [the military]. [Previously], the prime minister would try to do this, do that, so that created an ill feeling. I get along with [the military]. I don't ask for this, for that. When you are happy, they are happy, too. Any [coup] rumor is impossible...
...owner of the eponymous pastry shop, was in the back cooking while her daughter hung out in the front after school. Everyone was on a first name basis. The old men muttered as they shuffled along the street, heads down. The town buzzed with chiacchiere—the rumor and gossip that flits between extended family. There were no Starbucks stores, but there were lawn chairs on every street corner, where residents sat and watched the day go by. So does that mean close enough is close enough? Would buying authentic ingredients in the North End be a good enough...
...secret service barricaded the bathroom door. Even CNN's Wolf Blitzer was turned away. After a time, the door blockade was lifted, but no VIP emerged from the urinals. The men decided, as they finally relieved themselves, that either the tiled bathroom held a secret trap door, or the rumor was true that President Bush had been holding in an adjacent room, and his security did not want to risk someone dropping a cherry bomb down the toilet...
...help them in any way.” Allston resident and task force member Harry Mattison said he was disappointed with Harvard’s refusal to openly discuss its expansion plans with the community. “People have been asking Harvard for months about this rumor that they were going to buy the station, but their representatives have refused to say a word about it, and there’s no discussion with the community about where a good relocation for WBZ might be.” Mattison said. Harvard officials declined yesterday to comment...
...business by such lender squeezes, starting last summer with two mortgage funds run by Bear Stearns. But Bear itself still turned a small profit in 2007. As late as the first week of March this year, there was no reason to think it was in imminent danger. Then rumors began flying that it was. Lenders refused to lend, clients refused to trade, and suddenly Bear was out of money. It was a bank run, more or less. And the scary thing was that there is no entirely satisfactory explanation for why it hit Bear. One may emerge as JPMorgan Chase...