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...have been pleased with the “intelligence” of Bradley’s work. Mass. Hall derided the publication of “Harvard Rules”: Summers’ spokeswoman at the time called the portrait of her boss ”sensationalist gossip.” And though some top administrators and communications staffers read the blog regularly, many privately take issue with Bradley’s ruminations and accounts of University politics...
...became a kind of village message board or general store where I and many others went to get the latest news and gossip,” he said...
...Daily Variety mentioned the dismal box-office in a story last month, and since then the web has been abuzz with news, gossip and (mostly) bad jokes about the film. Produced for an estimated $1.2 million - about one-eighth the budget of Little Miss Sunshine - Zyzzyx Road played in a single, solitary Texas theater late last year. What happened? The answer is actually simple: the brief release in an inaccessible spot was deliberately chosen by the filmmakers to validate the Screen Actors Guild pay scales for films under $2.5 million...
...disclose financial information, so investors had few ways to gauge company performance or whether an investment was sound. Although some websites track the prices of popular stocks, reliable market data is nonexistent, meaning it's virtually impossible to determine if prices are fair. Neophytes are informed almost solely by gossip and the misguided hope that what goes up will continue to go up. "Basically, the way stocks are researched is 'My grandfather's uncle's cousin's wife works at this company and says it's a good buy,'" says Mike Temple, a director at securities-trading company Dragon Capital...
...Cantonese - earning about $450 a month as maids, nannies and cooks in nearly 200,000 Hong Kong households. On Sundays, thousands of Filipinas take over the commercial hub, the Central district. They swarm sidewalks and elevated walkways to spend their sole day off picnicking, playing cards, singing and swapping gossip. If you linger long enough, as I did my first week, you're sure to be offered tea and snacks...