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Unconfirmed reports in the New York Times and Washington Post last weekend suggested that IBM may sell its personal computer division to the Chinese company Lenovo. An IBM spokesperson would not confirm or deny the rumor...
Daniel D. Moriarty, assistant provost and chief information officer for Harvard University, said that the Harvard community should be “cautious not to speculate on a rumor...
Perhaps it was nothing more than wishful thinking by his many enemies, but the wildest rumor to sweep through Asian financial markets last week was that Kim Jong Il, North Korea's despotic leader, was shot in the head by his brother-in-law's son during a palace coup. Quickly dismissed as pure fantasy, the rumor of Kim's demise was merely the most extreme example of recent speculation regarding the fate of Kim's Stalinist regime...
They’ve been coming all season, huddled in pairs in the press box or watching silently at practice. They come from Oakland, from Pittsburgh, from Indianapolis, drawn by a highlight reel and a rumor. They come because somehow or other they’ve heard that tucked away in the dusty corner of the football world that is the Ivy League, a future NFL quarterback is waiting to be discovered...
...face of FM gossip: stinging rumor, swollen innuendo...