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...service launched last week by America Online (which, like this magazine, is owned by Time Warner). Not to be confused with love@aol.com which is run by Match.com for AOL subscribers only, Love.com is the first dating site to use the free software known as AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). More than 50 million people use AIM regularly to chat with friends and co-workers. Many have it open on their desktop the entire time they're online...
When you've located a personal ad you like, Love.com tells you whether its creator is online and using AIM at the moment. Click once, and the object of your attention will be sent a request for an instant message (which he or she can safely refuse, since Love.com masks your real AIM user name). The two of you could be virtual-speed-dating faster than you can say, "My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard...
...determined yet, but it's likely to be comparable to Match.com's $25 a month or $100 a year. Regular Spring Street sites charge you just $1 anytime you want to initiate an e-mail correspondence. Since Love.com trusts users to verify that they are 18 or older and AIM is officially available to anyone 13 or older, parents of teenagers may want to be extra vigilant...
...however attractive they may seem to be, American ideals can't be rammed down others' throats. The Bush Administration's aim to create democracies in the Islamic world is a noble one, but it will fail if the sole measure of its success is the extent to which those in Muslim lands eventually look like Americans. Not everyone wants Big Macs, 200 TV channels and the separation of church and state. Nations are capable of finding their own paths to modernity. That will be as true in Iraq as it has been in a village in the shadow...
...Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, who is spearheading the review, said the aim of the meeting was simply to increase transparency, to ensure that every faculty member who was interested would know what was going...