He phoned his colleague Tim Hunt, who had already left a message saying that he thought they may have won it together.
I tried to break it off — without mentioning the reason why — and over the next week or so he reached out to me with several desperate text messages, saying that he thought we 'had something real' and didn't understand what had gone so wrong.
Mike Stack, 39, of New Jersey, a member of the #bornfreecrew on Twitter, said that when he saw that "Nikki Reid" began her campaign to get Mr. Weiner to take her to the prom, he sent her a message that said he thought it was "creepy" that Mr. Weiner was following a minor.
In the summer of 2000, while he publicly recommended the stock of InfoSpace -- a company that was interested in buying Go2Net, a Merrill Lynch client -- he privately confided in e-mail messages to colleagues that he thought it was a "piece of junk".
John C. Weicher, assistant secretary of the department, said in an e-mail message to a spokesman that he thought the deal was not typical.
When a former lover calls him to say that she can't bear to see him so diminished, he manages to spell out a message saying that he thinks of her every day.
Chatting further, the academic told me that he had discovered the hidden meaning of the numerical message in the crop circle and that he thought the next one would appear at a certain spot, and have something to do with the mathematical term pi.
Christopher C. Walleck '14 was among the many students who told The Crimson that he thought the message from Harvard should have come sooner.
