Word: hearsay
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...addition to the Allston planning and curricular review, have been discussed openly and frequently in recent months at GSC meetings. Advanced graduate students certainly have experienced “life under Summers’ leadership for four years,” and using the phrase “hearsay and anecdotal evidence” to cheapen the well-informed and thoughtful opinions of the graduate student body was unhelpful...
...ignores the very different nature of graduate students’ relationship with Summers. After experiencing life under Summers’ leadership for four years, the Faculty publicly aired many of its concerns about his leadership style and the future of the University. Graduate students have had no such experience. Hearsay and anecdotal evidence from professors were the only data informing their votes. We’re not really sure what if any qualms graduate students have with Allston planning, the curricular review, or the tenuring of female faculty, or if their concerns are wholly different. But we?...
...proceedings, however, were highly unconventional. There were no first-hand witnesses. Most testimony bordered on hearsay. And all of the defendants were dead...
...Virginia Woodbury Fox, a Washington socialite during Lincoln's day. Writing of rumors that Lincoln and Derickson slumbered together in the White House, Fox exclaims, "What Stuff!" To Tripp, the comment denotes shock at Lincoln's behavior, but it could just as easily be construed as disgust at hearsay...
...expected to testify. Shareholders are suing Disney's board, claiming the 1995 hiring of Ovitz and his dismissal 14 months later by Disney CEO MICHAEL EISNER cost the company up to $200 million. The plaintiffs allege Disney could have fired Ovitz for lying (a charge his spokesman calls "hearsay and gossip") and denied him his $140 million severance. In an internal memo read in court last week, Eisner called Ovitz, once his close friend, "a psychopath" who "doesn't know right from wrong." Stay tuned for yet more evidence Disney isn't the happiest place on earth...