Finally I e-mailed him to ask when we were going to see each other again.
A few weeks after Hadid returned to New York, Grison e-mailed him to wish him a happy New Year.
Six days after my meeting with Wassef, I e-mailed him to see how the video was coming along.
Mr. Aufhauser was on an Acela train to Washington when UBS's chief risk officer e-mailed him to warn that the auction-rate securities market was collapsing.
I've known both men since those days in the early nineties, and, during the furor over Wang's Frankfurt remarks last year, I e-mailed him to express my chagrin.
He said that one Hunter parent e-mailed him to say, "I told my son he was indeed going to school at the saddest place, and he took a certain pride in it".
But last week, after a CNN reporter discovered his real name and e-mailed him to ask for a comment, his attitude abruptly changed, and he posted a long, forthright apology on Reddit.
When I e-mailed him to ask whether he supported carbon-capture for enhanced oil recovery, he replied that if carbon were sent back into the ground "the worst possible thing to do with it is to get more oil above ground".
When I e-mailed him to find out what he calls this music (I call it "submarine makeout music"), he responded: In its broadest possible sense, the music I play is contemporary electronic dance music — but already we're in tricky territory, because, really, what music isn't dance music?
His days of scripted triumphs come to an end, however, when a studio worker accidentally mails him to New York.
After Melik's piece appeared, I e-mailed him to let him know how upset I was, and, to give him credit, he was genuinely surprised.
