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...Texas secessionists when Texian leader Rick McLaren finally picked up the phone. Authorities had threatened to cut electricity to the trailer where the 13 separatists are holed up after a day and half of letting the phone ring. "So far the conversations have not been much more than chit-chat," said Mike Cox, spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, who said power to the trailer will not be switched off so long as the chit-chat continues. Outside support for the separatists appears to be dwindling. A Republic of Texas rally a few miles away near Pecos fell...
OurSquare was initially created as an "Ivy League chat room," with a focus on personal rather than professional relationships, according to an article in the Amherst Student...
...firm may look pretty appealing to him right now, he can depart in his own time; Clinton is in no position to fire him, given the ongoing investigations into campaign contributions. Does the White House dream of getting rid of him? "On the list of things we chat about over here, it's not on the Top 10," says an official. "And we never get below...
...think it's going to be more and more of a big deal," says Michael Ostrow, president of the esteemed American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. "People get into these chat rooms and they start talking, and some of it gets really steamy." I went to America Online for some field research and immediately saw what he was talking about. A dozen chat rooms were in full swing, with such names as "WivesWithOtherMen," "F wants Married M" and "marriedandflirting." And this was in the middle of the afternoon...
...chat online until your fingers are raw, but you still can't convey the emotional subtlety of tete-a-tete conversation. That's why emoticons were invented, those clever keyboard images designed to punctuate online palaver with a fillip of feeling. Some have become well known: ;-) is a wink and a smile (in other words, aren't I ironic?). But the art form has spread beyond its first primitive symbols to become an increasingly complex form of Net expression. Herewith a quick sampling of the latest in postliterate sign language...