"We never ever talk about news or the editorials, under any circumstances," Collins told me in an e-mail message.

"This is much more dangerous than anyone suggests," the woman told The Times in an e-mail message.

He was told in an e-mail message in October 2000 that his position was being eliminated, the filing said.

He told friends in an e-mail message recently that he had "fast growth cancer."

"I wouldn't own a share," he told a favored client in an e-mail message.

His blanket, he told the museum staff in an e-mail message, was "certainly not much to look at."

He said he had told his players in team meetings and in an e-mail message to play a hard, clean game Saturday.

Be patient, Gundwane, she told him in a longer message than she had ever sent before.

"My first job was helping my parents answer all the fan mail for the Muppets," she told us in an e-mail message.

"I was taken aback and speechless," Elbe told me in an e-mail message.