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Harvard may not have a 24-hour student center, but Daniel M. Hoffer `98 has created a virtual one--The CrimSim CHATeau...
...CHATeau can host up to 200 users at a time and operates based on Internet Relay Chat (IRC) technology. IRC allows multiple users to join in live group discussions by typing in lines of text...
...CHATeau, unlike IRC, is a graphical environment in which users are represented by "avatars". These avatars can be customized by students and have an entire wardrobe to choose from...
...Edith Wharton, which is awfully grandiose for someone who churns out sentences like "Welcome to the age of Un-Innocence. No one has breakfast at Tiffany's, and no one has affairs to remember." But despite hokey prose, she is valuable as an arch and knowing observer of her Chateau Latour-imbibing universe. She mostly avoids the temptation to lay it on too thick, never making her "characters" more absurd than they prove themselves to be. Mercifully too, she has the good sense never to venture beyond her demographic. Reporting on the world of size-10 women and the actuaries...
...class warriors can point out sullenly that if you were trying to write off a chateau in Normandy and a palace in Tangier and a 727 while claiming that what looks like an estate in New Jersey is a cattle ranch, you'd find the current tax code complicated...