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...Excerpt: Welcome to the seventh volume of Best of ?. For the past half dozen years we were Best of Four, publishing the best writing in English 004 classes, primarily on the Hazleton campus. Two years ago we began accepting submissions from some of the other Commonwealth College campuses, and this year we made the big plun...

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...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin L...

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