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Gossip - evaluative social chat about another person - may not be so nefarious when one desires to protect someone from harm. Hearing gossip that your son's friend is a drug-dealer may aid you in steering your loved one away from a destructive relationship. Gossip may also simply be a way to gather useful and helpful information about our social worlds without direct and embarrassing inquiry. Gossip - or the fear of gossip - may in this way serve to enforce the social norms that are necessary for any group to exist. And, of course, gossiping with someone signifies that they...
...University’s financial health, such growth could become a public relations liability in light of accusations from lawmakers, namely Senator Charles E. Grassley, that the nation’s wealthiest universities are hoarding money to build their endowments rather than spending more aggressively on financial aid...
...such as the Faculties of Arts and Sciences and the Divinity School rely heavily on endowment income. Those two schools drew 46 and 66 percent of their operating expenditures, respectively, from their endowments as of 2006. Harvard has emphasized that its endowment growth has been used to increase financial aid, one of Grassley’s oft-cited goals in criticizing low endowment spending rates. For example, the press release accompanying Harvard’s investment returns today mentions “financial aid” six times in its first five paragraphs. Grassley has recently toned down his legislative...
...indeed the octogenarian leader of 28 years has had a change of heart, the resulting breakthrough could open the possibility of foreign aid flowing into the country, whose shattered economy has lately seen inflation top 2 million percent. But the international community, like many Zimbabweans, may wait to see whether the new deal actually ends the political violence that has become a trademark of Mugabe's regime...
...than the soles of their feet, is a uniquely Japanese tradition, steeped in shinto ritual and courtly decorum. The rikishi are required to live communally in "training stables," where all aspects of their lives, from nutrition to attire, are strictly regulated. Marijuana may not exactly be a performance-enhancing aid to the martial artist, but its recreational use certainly shatters the image of a cadre of professional fighters viewed as bearers of a centuries-old tradition deeply entwined with Japanese identity. Clearly, all is not well in the house of sumo...