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...minor changes to that deal, nine of the 19 original litigants, including New York, Ohio and Illinois, have found they too can do business with Mr. Bill. Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft foots their legal costs but doesn't admit any wrongdoing, although Gates did make a cryptic commitment last week to "becoming a better industry leader...
...hard night of hanging posters to discover a ransom note taped to their door: “Your fridge is okay. Remain by the phone lines for further contact. Miss call, miss fridge. Use the bluelights, over and out.” Andthere was something else with the cryptic note: a small photo of the suspects’ middle fingers taken in front of the fridge...
...survived unscathed. Soon, however, it was no longer the sailing, but the man instructing me, that freaked me out. He had continually been dropping strange hints about the disarray in his life. For instance, he kept dropping cryptic remarks revealing that he was in a precarious position at work. Just after we crashed, we were discussing the carelessness of the other boat—clearly it was their fault, not ours. All of a sudden he turns to me and says, “I probably shouldn’t be telling you this, since you’re stuck...
...often foreshadow real-life horrors. In May last year a 17-year-old boy hijacked a bus in Fukuoka prefecture, held 10 passengers hostage and stabbed one to death during a 15-hour, 279-km ride of terror. An hour before boarding the bus, he had left a cryptic message on the Channel 2 bulletin board: "Saga City (near Fukuoka) 17-year-old, heh heh heh heh heh." A week later, another 17-year-old announced online that he intended to "shock the world." He then assaulted a man on a Tokyo train with a hammer...
When the small note, the size of a 4x6 index card, was unfolded, handwriting stood out against the white background. The writing, with its hybrid of cursive and italics, is unmistakably Soman’s. Written unhurriedly in bold, black script is a single cryptic line...