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Last year, a newspaper deliveryman in Japan was brought to trial for killing a seven-year-old girl. After drowning his victim, he used her cell phone to take a digital photo of the body and to send the image to her mother with a text message saying, "I've got your daughter." In a country where truth is often weirder and more gruesome than fiction, few writers can compete with the stories on the evening news. The chilling exception is Miyuki Miyabe, one of Japan's most popular authors. In Crossfire, her third novel to be translated into English...
...told Time. "I told him I'd get in touch again, and called a few days later to say there was an urgent need to meet." The men never did re-establish contact and on Jan. 26 - less than two weeks later - Mittal called Dollé on his mobile phone at Frankfurt airport while he was checking in for a flight to Toronto. The message: Rotterdam-based Mittal Steel would be announcing the following day a formal $22.6 billion takeover bid for Arcelor, one of the largest hostile bids in European history...
...certainly cheaper than Chanel, but please don't call it secondary. "I hate the notion of a second line," Lagerfeld says, on the phone from Paris where he was working on Chanel's fall 2006 line. "It's condescending and patronizing...
While I believe that Presidential wiretapping for political reasons is wrong, the National Security Agency can read my e-mail and listen to my phone conversations all day long if it will help them find the bad guys. The government knows whom to be suspicious of. I am sure it is trying desperately to find terrorists. Why would it spend needless hours reading the e-mail I send to my mother? Please let the government do its job and keep us safe. After all, why do we have spy agencies...
...mercy, about shoppers' bad behavior. "Do not wait until one minute before we close to come into my store and expect me to wait patiently while you browse and then don't buy anything," chastises Retail Recorder, a blogger who identifies herself only as a store manager. The cell-phone saleswoman who writes a blog called Can You Hear Me Now? describes why a customer became furious: "Because we wouldn't let him return DSL equipment to our store. Uh, we don't even sell DSL equipment...