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...soon became apparent that they knew a lot. A "controller" calling himself Grzelak had been trailing her for months, bugging her home and workplace to gather intimate details of her life. "I was shocked at how much they knew," she says. "All the time I was thinking, 'What is their source?'" She agreed to talk, she says, because she feared the alternative was prison. She admits she rambled on about her work and her personal life, but says she recounted only what she thought were "things that they already knew." In the end, she says, Grzelak suggested she collaborate...
...China becomes more appealing. "They're interested in doing deals, but they don't have a good composite view of what the rest of the business world is thinking and doing there," says Chao, 50, who speaks Mandarin and French and travels to China once a month to gather such intelligence. "We add value by supplying the local knowledge and expertise they require...
...everybody else weren’t doing the same thing. We wouldn’t—well, at least my roommate wouldn’t—drink Guinness, unless spurred to do so by a vague feeling of celebration. There is a deeply human compulsion to gather and to celebrate; in our more or less secular society, it has insufficient outlet. At Harvard, where we are frequently trapped by our self-involvement, the problem is particularly acute. Good parties and concerts sometimes crystallize into a sort of communal joy, but the phenomenon is rare. On St. Patrick?...
...China becomes more appealing. "They're interested in doing deals, but they don't have a good composite view of what the rest of the business world is thinking and doing there," says Chao, 50, who speaks Mandarin and French and travels to China once a month to gather such intelligence. "We add value by supplying the local knowledge and expertise they require...
Traditional journalism flows from the top down: the editor decides what to cover, the reporters gather the facts, and the news is packaged into a story and distributed to the masses. News on the Net, by contrast, is bottom up: it bubbles from newsgroups whenever anyone has anything to report. Much of it may be bogus, error-ridden or just plain wrong. But when writers report on their area of expertise -- as they often do -- it carries information that is frequently closer to the source than what is found in newspapers...