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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...
...discussion is one which I well might have remembered for the rest of my life. Whether I submit this very overdue paper tomorrow, the next day or not at all is unlikely to make any indelible impressions on my memories of being 19 years old and surrounded by the richest intellectual environment I may ever encounter...
Perhaps Hatch felt slighted that he didn't get any of the brownies and cookies Microsoft sent to another Senator after the hearing. No matter. It's unlikely Gates is hankering to return. The 42-year-old Harvard dropout may be the world's smartest and richest businessman, but as he learned last week, that and $1.60 get you a cup of chowder in the Rayburn cafeteria...
...cause for excitement should stem from the fact that Harvard will face a team that is one of the richest in tradition when it comes to women's basketball. Additionally, the Crimson will battle this perennial power in Maples Pavilion, a building that is home to still more women's college basketball lore...
Harvard has a television audience, one of the most historic stages in the country and one of the richest traditions in the game to make its point. It may never have such an opportunity again...