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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...
...surprise announcement appears to be a warning to those in the corridors of power who have begun suggesting that Yeltsin stand down when his term expires in 2000. ?This is his way of striking back, reminding everybody exactly who is in power,? says TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Paul Quinn-Judge...
Duffell, junior southpaw Quinn Schafer and sophomore closer Mike Madden will all begin the season on the disabled list, but Walsh holds onto hopes of seeing them join the squad...
...Although Quinn says that Boston under MayorThomas M. Menino is making no effort to "curbthese people's [First Amendment] rights" anddenies any concerted effort by the city to removethe X-rated element from the Combat Zone, the BRAhas a history of conflicts with the sin industryon Washington Street...
...Quinn says the city purchased the "gateway intoChinatown" under its urban renewal plan, but doesnot actively seek out Asian-American-ownedbusinesses to occupy...