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This week, salacious gossip website (ahh, Gossip Gal drools for thee) Gawker.com reported, among other tidbits, a liasion between a certain hotshot Harvard professor/journalist/cool dude about town and a student whose facebook.com profile straddles the line between provocative and scandalous. Gossip Gal can neither confirm or deny this rumor, but damn...
...category of peace rumors follows a very realistic vein. Thus, as a current rumor has it, Lloyds of London is betting that there will be peace in six months. Undoubtedly this is literally true. Lloyds will issue policies on the continuance or discontinuance of the war. But the implication which the story always carries when told here is that Lloyds is betting better than even odds that peace will come. Representatives of Lloyds here in Boston were unable to give any precise figures, but granted, as did other British officials, the absurdity of the implication...
...variant of this rumor alleges that American banks and "financial experts" are wagering that peace will come within a few months. Here again there is no supporting evidence. As one member of the stock exchange put it, "We haven't enough for a small ham sandwich these days, much less to bet on so risky a proposition as this...
...third class of peace rumors predict that one or the other of our allies will make a separate peace, leaving us with the sack. This is an old device for creating distrust and disunity between allies. Since the first of March this rumor has circulated about every one of our allies. At the present time it is Russia who is reported about to sell us down the river...
...Qaeda has infected others with its ideology," CIA director George Tenet said recently. "Other extremist groups within the movement it influenced have become the next wave of the terrorist threat." That only makes them harder to find and stop. Even in hindsight, there was no electronic chatter, no rumor, nothing from interrogations hinting at an attack before the train bombers struck in Madrid. The amorphous nature of the plotters' network enabled it to operate under the noses of intelligence and police forces...