"Of course you watch, and I probably read the text too, " said Hersh, perhaps the most cynical of all.

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"If he had seen some sort of security threat or had some issue he wanted resolved, he could have read the text messages, but I feel he just took the whole issue too far, " says Andrew Locke, a junior at the school.

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And you know, that's been all over the cable news channels but they had not read the famous text message yet and I actually had to show it to them on my BlackBerry.

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When I tried to read the SoftBook outdoors, the reflection of my face was as visible as the text.

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The FBI said that before Tsarnaev's roommate let the three friends into the room, Kadyrbayev received a text message from Tsarnaev that read: "I'm about to leave if you need something in my room take it, " according to the FBI.

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