So he copied Gallagher’s essay for his online profile. Online daters feel pressure to stand out and believe they must sell themselves like a product, say researchers at Georgetown, Rutgers and Michigan State universities who are conducting a joint study of them. After hunting for some copy-and-paste help — including borrowing the line “you will soon learn that I’m a raging egomaniac” — Picazio says he’s gotten 20 dates. Nearly half of high-school students and nearly 40 percent of college undergrads confess they copy online sources, according to surveys conducted by Donald McCabe, a founder of the Center for Academic Integrity at Clemson University in South Carolina. The book “Online Dating for Dummies” tells readers not to fret about copying. Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is hanging on for his political life after the revelation that, among 14,000 text messages between him and his chief of staff Christine Beatty, there was evidence of an extramarital affair. read more

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We’ve passed Valentine’s Day, which means by now your mate has settled back into his or her comfortable ambivalence toward you and your relationship. This wish cost the Roman Empire-era saint his head, a fact that I doubt Hallmark had in mind when they elevated Valentine’s Day into the pantheon of reasons to purchase greeting cards. With three little ones at home, we find it best to set aside our own romantic dates rather than try to secure a babysitter on a Thursday for a meal that will cost us twice as much in a restaurant clouded with excess perfume. From the front page of Yahoo to the back hour of “Good Morning America,” Valentine’s Day seems to be the perfect time to tell Americans everything they’re doing wrong in the world of romance. read more

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