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...publications have seen the light: on May 11 Entertainment Weekly reported "the rumor is she's his ex-wife," and on June 15 the New York Times finally got the facts right in a blurb, after buying the falsehood in an earlier article. In the Detroit area press, it's old news that the Whites were once bride and groom. But the myth is still at large: The New Yorker, usually considered fact-checking's vaunted ideal, refers to the White Stripes in its current issue as "two siblings from Detroit...
...typical Saturday night, thousands of American teenagers flood Tijuana's Revolucion Avenue in search of the kind of fun they can't find at home. The legal drinking age here is 18, not that anyone bothers to check. There are hookers. And drugs. And there's a rumor that if you know the right people, a particularly exotic combination of both can be arranged without too much of a hassle. When the sun goes down, the crowds thicken outside the 80-odd cantinas along the avenue, and pulsing jock-rock mingles with the aroma of stale beer and fresh vomit...
...sleety Sunday, the search committee ate a late lunch in the aptly named Intrigue Café. Reporters staked out the lobby, and the rumor mill was enchanted with a man named Bollinger...
...This is not a story of self-promoting celebrities. The Bush twins never had a choice about submitting themselves to the national rumor mill. I very much doubt their father would have curbed his political aspirations just because his daughters weren?t particularly comfortable having their pictures taken and hearing that their inauguration outfits were a little dowdy...
...chance to write foreign news. Howard happened to be the Saturday night duty writer when the Chinese army stormed Tiananmen Square in 1989, and by daybreak Sunday he wrote our cover on the massacre. Since then, he has written or edited more than 50 covers, giving rise to the rumor that he never leaves the building. Trust me: he does, though his elaborately decorated office (which includes not one but two plastic blowups of the figure from Edvard Munch's The Scream) suggests someone very much at home in his work...