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...many years, have flights to Wichita carried so many worried women and frightened girls? Why are certain cemeteries dotted with cryptic messages on tiny headstones? Why have so many fervent souls, fiery with outrage, made the long trip across dry prairies or through flint hills to weep and pray in a parking lot along a busy highway? Why here...
...people to remain indoors and avoi—” Kirkland resident Gladisley Sanchez ’09 said she was unsure when she could leave her room. The text message, she said, was unclear and the first e-mailed communications from the university were “cryptic, vague and brief.” “A lot of what I’ve learned has been through news sources,” said Kirkland Resident Elizabeth A. Cook ’10. “They should have informed us a lot earlier than they...
...what is this evidence?” The first of the two recordings is particularly bizarre—an eery mash-up; distorted snatches of speech echoing over hollow instrumentals below. Of what is this evidence? Nesson posts the answers to his blog. Many are highly cryptic, even incomprehensible. Some include mash-ups of their own. Some are poems: “Of What is This Evidence?/Ought we, living underground, dare/To ask such questions of the Universe?/To search for the space that lies between?” It’s a style of speech, of stream...
...proper direction. How will people know how fun your Fourth of July barbecue was if every picture looks like you fell over? 9. If you create a group called "Lost my cell phone; need your numbers!," I will join, but I won't give you my number. 10. Cryptic status updates about your mental state - "Rachel is trying so hard," "Rachel wishes things were different," "Rachel is starting her life over" - don't make you sound intriguing, just lonely and pathetic...
...through on mobile phones." On the wall is a list of telephone codes for various Tibetan regions, and four clocks charting the time in India, Tibet, the U.S. and Europe. He says some 20 people drop by to call Tibet from his phone booths every day. Conversation is cryptic at best, with callers avoiding names and any references that might land those in Tibet in trouble with the authorities. "No one's talking. They're scared their phones may be tapped," says Worbu...