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Cable-TV descramblers! FDA-approved diet pills! Viagra without a prescription! Instant access to XXX movies! Dramatically enhanced orgasms! If you have ever received e-mails advertising products and services like these--some quite within the law, some clearly outside it--chances are they came from a guy like Howard Carmack, professional spammer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spam's Big Bang! | 6/16/2003 | See Source »

Unlike its much-buzzed-about HBO brethren, the cop drama The Wire was not dubbed an instant cultural phenomenon when it debuted last summer. Not as operatic as The Sopranos, as sleek as Six Feet Under or as trendy as Sex and the City, it was not the kind of show that becomes an automatic pop-cult reference for op-ed columnists or lands articles about its stars' footwear in IN STYLE. Like its underfunded, workaday cops, it just plugged away until it outshone anything else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Return Of The Un-Sopranos | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

More than once during interviews the past four years, Marty Bell or somebody would throw out an intelligent-sounding word, the kind of word that wins you instant credibility in Gov section, and Walsh would wince. One time “tangential” made an appearance in one of Marty’s questions, and I knew exactly what was coming next...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Life of Brian: Confessions of a Would-Be Harvard Man | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

...list of names grew as future classmates found each other over AOL Instant Messenger and the Internet...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Widdicombe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Prefrosh E-group Connected Class of ’03 | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

...wasn’t until Herring’s sophomore year at Harvard, when they were a full 16-hour drive apart, that the two began dating. Herring says he struck up a conversation with Webb over AOL Instant Messenger and took her on a bowling date during their Thanksgiving break. By Christmas, their relationship became official. Herring says he proposed to Webb at the camp where they first met—“the spot where we had our first kiss,” he explains. She agreed, and the couple plans to marry this summer in Tennessee...

Author: By Wendy D. Widman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Wedding Planners | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

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