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...editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, the largest-selling women's magazine in the world. Yet she finds time to write delicious, best-selling novels as well. Her super-charged new mystery, ?Over Her Dead Body? (Warner), involves the murder of the temperamental editor of a celebrity gossip magazine. Galley Girl met White between deadlines at her office building in Manhattan...
...says, "JUDE DID THE NANNY," I am going to stop and I am going to read. I can't deny it. I'm intrigued. When people ask me why these magazines are so successful, I think it's partly celebrities, but I also think it's a love of gossip. When we gossip about our friends, we feel guilty, we feel that this evil twin part of us was doing it. Afterwards, you have that hangover from having perhaps broken a confidence, or said something negative or tacky about a friend. When you're gossiping about Jude...
...jokes and comments that reinforce overwork. "It's like, coming in at 10 o'clock and someone says, 'Wow, I wish I could come in at 10,'" Tobias says. "It's really hard to let that bounce off and not be defensive." LaMere, 32, says she used to gossip about who was taking an extra-long lunch break. "We were all watching each other," she says. "You don't want to be seen eating in the cafeteria." LaMere always ate at her desk...
...quiet stars of the show, though, are Walk Japan's bilingual guides. Besides knowing the innkeepers and many locals along the trail well enough to ask about the latest family news or village gossip, each guide is a mine of general knowledge about the country. After-dinner chats can easily swoop from discussions of feudalism to an analysis of contemporary demographics. It's a lesson in Japanese studies that you won't find in any lecture theater, with some rigorous exercise to boot...
...Yufudake and the Nakayama Senkyo ridge. Visits to artists' studios and various temples are included. The quiet stars of the show, though, are Walk Japan 's bilingual guides. Besides knowing the innkeepers and many locals along the trail well enough to ask about the latest family news or village gossip, each guide is a mine of general knowledge about the country. After-dinner chats can easily swoop from discussions of feudalism to an analysis of contemporary demographics. It's a lesson in Japanese studies that you won't find in any lecture theater, with some rigorous exercise to boot...