{"id":137,"date":"2005-03-29T10:28:37","date_gmt":"2005-03-29T14:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/03\/29\/campus-notes\/"},"modified":"2005-03-29T10:28:37","modified_gmt":"2005-03-29T14:28:37","slug":"campus-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/03\/29\/campus-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n

The New York Times<\/a> has an article about Liz Smith
\n and the difficulty of being a star-friendly gossip columist in a world
\n of smarmy and snide blogs…<\/em><\/p>\n

In
\n today’s gossip world, being kind is hardly an option. "The
\n Internet and blogs have returned gossip to its earliest human roots –
\n the kind
\n of
\n gossip that
\n the priests
\n told
\n you
\n was a venal
\n sin," said Ms. Gerhart. "You can make it up. You can speculate
\n wildly. You can accuse people of the most taboo practices, all in this
\n sort of merry way."<\/p>\n

The buzz around campus has it that during the recent
\n full moon THE DOWBRIGADE discovered Harvard President LAWRENCE SUMMERS
\n and commie columnist
\n MAUREEN DOWD sitting naked around a fire on the steps of WIDENER LIBRARY
\n tatooing Nazi insignia on the bodies of drugged undergraduates.<\/em><\/p>\n

from the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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