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...cast members” instead of “employees,” “guests” instead of “customers,” and “costumes” instead of “uniforms.” Cast members also spout cryptic acronyms as easily as any Harvard student...
...Olympiad.” The flags of many nations hung from walls or sprang from centerpieces; bright cloth napkins bedecked the tables. The theme from “Chariots of Fire,” as well as other vaguely martial music, rang from speakers. With cryptic symbolism, a smoke machine belched beside the Annenberg card swiper’s desk. Some dining hall workers were festively clad in funny hats...
...another putative link to the suicide pilots, the Spanish indictment details five cryptic calls to Abu Dahdah?s phone in August and September of this year. The caller, known as Shakur, could be one participant in the Sept. 11 suicide hijackings who lived to tell the tale. While investigators have not revealed the geographical origin of the calls, they do have a physical description of Shakur as "short, fat, with little hair and about 34 years...
After the attacks Shakur?s calls became even more cryptic. On Sept. 26, according to the indictment, he asks Yarkas whether he is "taking his malaria medicine," and in their last known conversation three days later Shakur considers a move to the "purer air" of Spain and recalls travels they had undertaken together there in the past...
...aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, public attention has turned once again to the cryptic prognosticatory quatrains of the sixteenth-century mystic Nostradamus. An e-mail that landed in many in boxes in the weeks after the attack quotes what it calls a prediction of the French astrologer’s: “In the City of God there will be a great thunder, / Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb, / The third big war will begin when the big city is burning...