Word: secretiveness
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Looks like Yale University’s most talked-about secret society, the Order of Skull and Bones, isn’t so secret anymore...
Ivygate recently reported that YouTube user “Dauphinish” released a video on Dec. 4 that, according to the YouTube caption, offers a “look inside the courtyard of Yale's oldest secret society.” And Gawker reported on Monday that the new privacy settings on Facebook confused a "boneswoman," which resulted in her pictures (from a Skull and Bones party at its retreat on Deer Island) being leaked out to the interwebs. Oops...
...Secret Service is investigating how a pair of socialites and aspiring reality TV stars crashed a White House state dinner. Michaele and Tareq Salahi, who met the President and Vice President at the Nov. 24 gala, insist they were invited; the two could face criminal charges...
Most sportswriters are male, Gruff, overworked and--as bartenders sometimes put it--overserved. Michael Penner changed the category. As a Los Angeles Times sportswriter, Penner, who died Nov. 27 at 52, worked even harder than most of his colleagues. But he also harbored a secret deeper than a love of bourbon: from a very early age, Penner felt that his male genitalia had been misassigned--and that he was, in the most meaningful ways, a woman. In 2007, after 23 years in the business--a career that included covering the Olympics along with professional baseball and football--Penner shocked...
...first presidential statement to the UC, Bowman—who said he initially had aspirations to become a comedy writer—chronicled his three unsuccessful attempts to “comp” the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...