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While Ted Koppel speculated about whether the president considered oral sex to be sex and Newsweek reported the possible existence of a semen-stained dress, the tabloid cover stories on the newsstands were: Jerry Springer ( Star ), JonBenet Ramsey ( Globe ), and Michael Jackson ( National Enquirer ). The big question this week was: Could the tabs reclaim their territory--the depravity and hypocrisy of the celebrated--in the face of the onslaught from the respectable press?
As for Liggett's motive, industry and financial analysts speculated that Liggett's CEO hoped to make the marginally profitable company a more attractive merger partner by eliminating its exposure to possibly huge jury awards.
The London Observer speculated that Yeltsin might try to hold on to power by causing the cancellation of elections.
This dress is what Alfred Hitchcock used to call the McGuffin--the all-important object whose pursuit frames a narrative (examples: the Maltese falcon, Charles Foster Kane's sled, and the uranium-packed wine bottles in Hitchcock's own Notorious ). The Love Dress's existence was first speculated upon in the Drudge Report (where it was black) and then on ABC (where it was navy blue).
They speculated that pressure has levied on the Pentagon by Boeing and Lockheed Martin, competitors with Israel Aircraft Industries in foreign sales of intelligence aircraft.