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...dealt with three marriages that were detonated by electronic affairs. In each, he says, "the woman ran away with a fellow she met and knew only online." One husband returned home to find his wife, children and computer gone. She'd been spending 16 hours a day in online chat groups, where she fell in love with a man halfway across the country...
There are many groups at Harvard-Radcliffe serving women, yet rarely do any collaborate on projects or even sit around and chat. Oddly enough, students have not looked to Radcliffe to ameliorate this rift. Many see Radcliffe as an impotent, insignificant, even inferior version of Harvard. Students ask, what has Radcliffe ever done for us? Well, if you compare her to Harvard, Radcliffe has probably done very little. But why must we see Radcliffe only in relation to and dependent upon Harvard? Why can't we acknowledge Radcliffe's potential as an independent, empowering institution for women...
...coaxing all the crazies out of the woodwork. They bring with them a twitchy hybrid of spirituality and pop obsession. Part Christian, part Asian mystic, part Gnostic, part X-Files, it mixes immemorial longings with the latest in trivial sentiments. When it all dissolves in overheated computer chat and harmless New Age vaporings, who cares? But sometimes it matters, for both the faithful and the people who care about them. Sometimes it makes death a consummation devoutly, all too devoutly, to be desired...
...Oklahoma religious sect, the Select Followers, had to be stopped by the police from sacrificing a virgin. In the case of Hale-Bopp, for months the theory that it might be a shield for an approaching ufo has roiled the excitable on talk radio and in Internet chat rooms like--what else?--alt.conspiracy...
...quirky world of National Public Radio, dulcet-toned commentators provide long, thoughtful analyses of issues both momentous and amusing, their reports bookended by tinkling music. But all that soothing and high-minded chat masks discord at the Washington-based radio network, which in the past few years has been hit with a series of racial- and sexual-discrimination lawsuits. "They've got a free ride over the years because they have this public image of being diverse," says Lynne Bernabei, whose law firm has represented 14 NPR clients. But NPR president Delano Lewis, one of the network's few high...