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Both Bossert and Heimert remember the fun of entertaining famous guests in the Masters’ Residence. Bossert fondly recalls serving tea to labor leader Cesar Chavez, pointing actor Robert Redford to the bathroom and watching his father (“in a tux and bare feet”) chat with Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart over a bowl of Cajun crawdads. Heimert says that often famous figure skaters stayed in Eliot House during the Evening With Champions benefit show...
...from less than 8% in 1997. For a quick tour of the new economic landscape, log on to the Internet and check out www.freechal.com. One of the Web portal's hottest products are avatars, digital cartoon characters that stand in for real people in Internet chat rooms. Freechal started charging for avatars last June. Already the company has captured some 110,000 Korean customers who spend an average of about $2.30 a month each on outfits and accessories for their virtual paper dolls. Doesn't sound like much, but it adds up to a $2.4 million boost to the local...
...Korean consumers have an affinity for e-commerce?thanks to the wildfire popularity of online gaming, shopping and stock trading?that is creating markets where none previously existed. These days, nobody would dream of visiting a chat room in the default get-up. Freechai's male customers are a bit conservative, says Ryou, but women like to go wild, taking fashion dares they wouldn't risk on a real boulevard. So she takes ideas and jacks them up a bit for cyberspace. Explains Ryou, who dons baggy hip-hop pants, a red tank top and bright yellow hair when...
Adam entered the chat rooms with a set agenda. “In all honesty, I was looking for someone to have sex with,” he says. “I had been saving up years of sexual tension and I wanted final confirmation that I was gay, but I didn’t want the person to be too young.” Adam feared a partner his age might have connections within his own social circles. “I also wanted someone with a car,” he adds in light of the fact...
Adam’s positive coming-of-age online experiences did not end even after he came to Harvard and told friends that he was gay. He began to rely on chat rooms as a sexual release that led to what he considers a moderate degree of promiscuity. “Even if I have work to do, when I’m bored and horny I sign on,” he says. “The summer after freshman year I met one guy and we had sex. I can’t remember his name, though...