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Fitful irritation and gossip, gusting to contempt; jealousy, plotting and backbiting, holding steady at obsessional hatred and spasms of baroque fury, with likelihood of budget cuts: this is the wind chart, as any veteran of the higher-ed dodge can attest, of collegial relations in a well-ordered university English department. Or so say the profs who write about such matters in satirical novels, most of them set on campuses not readily distinguishable from their...
...form. The survivors of the Tuskegee, Ala., syphilis experiments and the victims of 1950s radiation research have all been awarded the presidential seal of sorrow. Tony Blair, an adroit mimic, apologized for the Irish potato famine before he even got around to hearing the latest Di-and-Fergie gossip from the Queen...
...tough way to make a living, but that suits Drudge, 30, just fine. The son of a lawyer and a social worker, he worked his way into the celebrity-gossip business from the bottom--the CBS gift shop at Studio City. He sees himself as a kind of digital Robin Hood among a corrupt and venal press. "Journalists aren't supposed to make money," he says, in a tone that's spoiling the taste of my Frappucino. "I've got enough to feed me and the cat, Dexter. And enough to shine my shoes...
...Obey your thirst." Self-mockery is a mark of Xer sophistication, and thus a staple of any show--from David Letterman to Conan O'Brien--seeking twentysomething viewers. Might, a San Francisco-based Gen X magazine, features tongue-in-cheek tables of contents, as in "Pages 157-72: Unflattering Gossip About Owners of Companies That Won't Advertise with Us" or "Pages 161-168: Some Stuff We Didn't Fact Check...
...watch MTV," she says. "It's so fun! I'm a TV junkie. I need to go to Melrose Anonymous! Eating Cap'n Crunch and watching TV--two things I live for. Twice a week we have all-girls' night. My best friends come over. We watch TV and gossip and scream and yell and do our nails...