Word: gossip
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...left, when they rose to face the music, the dramatic duo barely exchanged glances. They may not be friends anymore, but in at least one sphere, they can never be separated again. Randy-and-Suzanne. Suzanne-and-Randy. Those names now twinned forever in Harvard College gossip...
...thing about Harvard College gossip is that there’s so little of it. Not like this, anyway, which is why Randy and Suzanne are doomed to immortality. Larceny. It’s not a word a Harvard student says often, most likely. A delicious word. Roll it over your tongue slowly. It tastes like chocolate, sinful, delectable. Like the Hasty Pudding Sundae at Ben and Jerry’s in the Garage—a guilty pleasure. Which is, I suspect, exactly what this alleged instance is for most of the College. Forget Shakespeare in Love. Think Shakespeare...
...very status in British society normally invites attention, but that hardly explains the smears and gossip that surfaced as soon as Carey's possible successors were named. It seemed that church factions had already started jostling to get their man in the job, in a scenario right out of the Barsetshire novels of Anthony Trollope, who vividly chronicled the intrigues of 19th century cathedral politics...
...Inside Somalia, locals doubt the terrorists are heading their way. Somalis tend to gossip too much for foreigners to feel secure, and few Somalis could resist the price on the heads of al-Qaeda leaders. "We would hand them over and claim the money to pay our men," says Mogadishu chief of police Hassan Awaale. "We have enough problems of our own without more [from them]." U.N. officials, Western diplomats and aid workers agree that al-Itihaad training camps of the '90s don't exist anymore and that the group was destroyed as a military force after Ethiopian forces entered...
...can’t spare that much time in our hectic lives, we surely do not deserve the attention that is currently lavished on us. Harvard students are rumored to be the future leaders of the world. There is little chance of this being anything more than idle gossip, though, if we refuse to respect those who currently hold that title...