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...Sunday, Caputo lost to No. 5 Dustin Wiles of Penn, 5-4, before winning the fifth place match, 13-2, against Justin Barent of Columbia.Sophomore Bobby Latessa (149 lbs.) won two matches for the Crimson on Saturday, and captain Mike Baria (165 lbs.) won a bout against Matt Pletcher of Rutgers, 7-0. Freshman Wesley Walker (174 lbs.) and sophomore Billy Colgan (197 lbs.) also wrestled for Harvard, though neither came away with a win over the weekend. The Crimson wrestlers now look forward to the NCAA Championships with hopes of finishing in the top eight and qualifying...
SEATTLE: Some advice for budding novelists: Don?t write to the world?s richest man and threaten his life. That?s what office worker and aspiring writer Adam Quinn Pletcher did, and it cost him $250,000 and a possible 20 years in prison after he was found guilty on four counts of extortion Tuesday. ?What I am offering is simple,? Pletcher, 22, wrote Microsoft boss Bill Gates. ?Your life for $5 million.? His letters went on to threaten harm to Gates, his wife, his daughter and colleague Steve Ballmer. In the chat room tradition, Pletcher posed...
...became almost a kind of interactive story,? Pletcher testified in his trial. ?It was actually happening as I wrote it.? He added that the letters were to form the basis of a novel inspired by that great Stallone turkey, ?Assassins? -- and that the money would help him open a teetotal nightclub. From now on Pletcher will have to use prison gates, not Bill Gates, for his inspiration...
Directed by Fred Pletcher...
...only thing that mars these otherwise solid performances is the actors' tendency to adopt a certain gesture or mannerism and repeat it over and over, as if Director Fred Pletcher had told his cast that nervous tics make characters more human. As a result, Raphael slicks his hair back, Hurewitz stammers like James Stewart, Paulus taps her foot, Bader walks around with her hands folded in her lap, and Tolins picks the wax out of his ear with his pinky and bellows, "Hehhehhehheh," like Jackie Gleason snapping at Audrey Meadows. All this becomes annoying quickly...