Word: cryptically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Material Girl once held dear "No handsome stranger, heady danger / Drug that I can try / No ferris wheel, no heart to steal / No laughter in the dark / No one night stand, no far off land / No fire that I can spark." The ending of the song is irresistibly cryptic: "And now, I find / I've changed my mind." And then you hear her final whisper, "This is my religion...
There are two great evils in the world (besides oppression and cryptic commercials), and they are the floppy disk and the computer virus. Let me explain...
...suppose it could be worse. Jennifer Lees at other schools have been given more cryptic aliases. There is the last-four-digits-of-your-social-security-number approach at the University of Idaho, which yields lee9482@uidaho.edu. At American University, a Jennifer Lee goes by jl4027a@american.edu. And then there is the ever bizarre Jennifer Lee at the University of California, Davis, dubbed ez062867@rocky.ucdavis.edu...
...line." Shrier has experienced that line. On his first paper written at Harvard, he wrote an overzealous introduction, declaiming about 'mankind.' He didn't get any comment about his bad introduction, or anything else, he remembers. Instead, the T.F. just circled the word 'mankind' and wrote a "weird cryptic comment that said, 'Use humanity. Though it seems like P.C. mumbo jumbo, they tell me I have to say that.'" Upon checking the handbook for teaching fellows, Shrier discovered that the T.F. was indeed supposed to correct gender-biased language. Having the correction being the only comment on the entire paper...
...known: that Kennedy was deeply complicit in the 1963 coup that toppled Ngo Dinh Diem. But Hersh insists that Kennedy not only approved the coup but also knew about and at least acquiesced in plans to murder Diem and his brother. His evidence for this is almost nonexistent: a cryptic, secondhand account of a conversation between Kennedy and CIA agent Edward Lansdale, a vague thirdhand account of a secret visit to Diem in 1963 by the President's friend Torbert Macdonald, the unsupported speculation of officials on the edges of events at the time. He argues that the Kennedy Administration...