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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...t Present Evils Mr. Iloiiior Fulks of New York oity, viooohairinuii of thn National Child Labor o(jMiinitleo, addreBHed tlio Good Governmen t club in ... ...Next Door to Watson's N. H. SANFORD, Proprietor Spring Street WILLIAMSTOWN National Bank Capital, --•... 150,000 Surplus and Net Profits, ij.ocxj Usua... ...Next Door to Watson's N. H. SANFORD, Proprietor Spring Street WILLIAMSTOWN National Bank Capital, ^50,000 Surplus and Net Profits, 15,000 Usual bankin... ... profession, died of apoplexy when about to sit down to a banquet of Grand Army men at Saratoga, N. Y.. on March 20. Mr. Root was born at North Granvi... ...ellorsville. For several years he was vice-president of the Society of the Army of the Poto- mac and in 1892 was president of the Y, M. C. A. of White... ...lans Continued From Last Issue Kanter will study chemical en- gineering at Michigan university. Keith will go into business as n grain commissioner. K... ... the common use of a model dairy. 1904—R. F. Wood has gradu- ated from the Michigan College of Mines, and is at present holding a responsible position... ... m. —Sercomb cnp shoot, Ta- conic traps. 2.80 p. m.—Williams-University of Michigan baseball game, Ann Arbor.Mich, 3.30 p. m.—1908 vs. 1910 baseball g... ...Indian Medley" "Tha Cttorus Lady" "Blue Danube" f "Cupid la Captain of the Army' I "Hottentot Lova Sone" "Dream of Heaven" "La M«tlchlche" "Rich Mr. H...

...ountry. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue generated by local and national ad sales, subscriptions, and voluntary contributions for use of its website. Both Sawyer Library and the College Archives maintain more than a century's worth of publicly accessible, bound volumes of the Record. The ...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...ave sent for Kleis... It is true she is fond of Mallia, the boy acting as guardian to her in the house of Charaxos, protecting her from Charaxos. I... ...d me home, dreading a repetition, though by now armed soldiers had set up guards. Stars shone brilliantly. The bay, mirror-smooth, seemed utterly i... ...ernoon warm, a lazy hunting dog at his feet. “I don’t understand how your army crossed the Alps in six or seven days.” “Five days,” he corrected me.... ...d there. I have seen some of it when I was collecting fossils. But for an army to get through, it seems impossible. You had cannons, horses, mules..... ...?” “Some say the Mount Genevre.” “He was a great tactical genius.” “Our army was well led...but there were times when I wished we had some of Hann... ...one’s intellect, guard one’s health. It is also an opportunity to perfect national and international law. Cer- tainly, freedom should not be a code b... ...g room, I face away from it. Carpenter says he will take the picture on a national tour. I believe that is an error. Monday evening Fireplace fir... ...difficult bridge between home and capitol. Crossing it, he is involved in national issues and problems he could not anticipate. About him is a sea o... ...staggered. Some fell, lay on the street. Women brought coffee. There were Michigan men, New York men, VOICES FROM THE PAST 590 Minnesota men—...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

.................................................... 163 BUDGET DEFICITS AND NATIONAL DEBTS ............................................................... ...owing! A loud voice is no assurance that truth is being spoken. Nor is an army of parrots proclaiming their beliefs a guarantee of objective reality... ...ch inabilities be partly responsible for America‘s voting preferences for national offices? ―Is this the reason that President George W. Bus... ...your children will be saddled with huge taxes to help pay off the immense national debt that resulted from your under-taxation, would you vote for t... ... Christian cause. Pope Leo IV guaranteed heaven to those in the Frankish army who might die ‗fighting for the truth of the faith, for the preservat... ... such as research, munitions manufacturing, and the expense of a standing army. Then you have highway and railway building and maintenance. But thes... ...r. Jack Kevorkian served 8 years for his second degree murder sentence in Michigan for having allowed people who wanted to die to kill themselves wit... ...an confronting what some legislators believed to be the God based laws of Michigan. ―Dr. Kevorkian had a continued interest in euthanasia, and ... ...ral judges had found him not guilty of murder. In 1992 the legislature of Michigan enacted a law that banned assisting in suicides. In 1994 a 379 ...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...d me (interviews) 5 We used to have words for everything * Supernatural guardian of our family * I don't believe everything sorcerers say * W... ...-93 Supernatural environment The invisible world 94 Supernatural guardians of the environment 94 * Phii and souls of the kinship group 96 ... ... religion Buddhism of the village community 107 From local religion to national faith 107 * Temple monks 108 * Ordination of monks 110 Po... ...lopment has rendered locality, village and municipal communities, even the national state, old- fashioned; the Finnish elite is now integrating its co... ...ned outside local communities, now even nation states. In the delocal era, national culture superseded local communities, and in international competi... ...ad. In the lottery, I got the black paper, and I was then signed up to the army for two years. I was in a motorized company. When the government no lo... ...walking in the area surrounding the village, one might bump into an entire army detachment searching for illegal timber stores and swiddens felled wit... ...ed. The third is a boy. He was just called up, but didn't have to join the army didn't draw the lot. The fourth is in the final year of secondary scho... ... D. Sahlins - Elman R. Service (eds), Evolution and Culture. Univ. of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. Kaufman, Howard Keva 1962 (1955). Banghuad; a...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...major and significant the resources are. Still, if a person volunteered to join the army and a contract has been signed between the parties, then th... ... this not the very quiddity of the oppressive state, its laws, police, prisons, and army? Are the origins of the coercive state and its justificati... ...tion, disturbance, drugs, violence or aggression witnessed by him, to social or to national conflict, to elation and even to sexual excitation. The... ...naciously, through countless generations, their language, habits, creed, dress, and national ethos. Only Jews become automatic citizens of Israel (t... ...s of Jewish scientists and scholars, the modern Israeli is proud of his invincible army and thriving economy. But they all share a sense of privile... ...ary. It is elitist. But Zionism has always regarded itself as both a (19th century) national movement and a (colonial) civilizing force. Nationalist... ...oid of the ability to communicate the existence of pain - would perish. Pain is our guardian against the perils of our surroundings. To summarize: ... ... are left to the competition. The more lucrative parts of the markets are zealously guarded by the company. Through legislation, policy measures, w... ... "Psychology – An Introduction" Ninth Edition By: Charles G. Morris, University of Michigan Prentice Hall, 1996 Introduction This essay is div...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...major and significant the resources are. Still, if a person volunteered to join the army and a contract has been signed between the parties, then th... ... this not the very quiddity of the oppressive state, its laws, police, prisons, and army? Are the origins of the coercive state and its justificati... ...tion, disturbance, drugs, violence or aggression witnessed by him, to social or to national conflict, to elation and even to sexual excitation. The... ...naciously, through countless generations, their language, habits, creed, dress, and national ethos. Only Jews become automatic citizens of Israel (t... ...s of Jewish scientists and scholars, the modern Israeli is proud of his invincible army and thriving economy. But they all share a sense of privile... ...ary. It is elitist. But Zionism has always regarded itself as both a (19th century) national movement and a (colonial) civilizing force. Nationalist... ...oid of the ability to communicate the existence of pain - would perish. Pain is our guardian against the perils of our surroundings. To summarize: ... ... are left to the competition. The more lucrative parts of the markets are zealously guarded by the company. Through legislation, policy measures, w... ... "Psychology – An Introduction" Ninth Edition By: Charles G. Morris, University of Michigan Prentice Hall, 1996 Introduction This essay is div...

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Fourth International Anthology on Paradoxism

By: Florentin Smarandache

...asoning for Information Fusion” was organized by Dr. Jean Dezert from Office National de l’Ètablissement des Recherches Aéronautiques in Paris, Fran... ...sia e dei suoi derivati e’ diventata fuori moda in questo secolo, e la gente guarda ad essa sorridendo e mettendola da parte. Io mi vergogno dì affe... ...ios to the sanitaries on duty and to the country’s whores pregnant with the national sexual excitement. Sneak into the chaos. Frighten half of the ... ... give a damn about Bebe Bebino and his godzilas and his titans or his street guards, fat, bald and eager to get some money. “Is this wind or breeze... ...llet right in your little ass, dirty with liver stains, you asshole and anti-national punk! You jerk, you’re coming to lament to me and make a big f... ... coal miner like his daddy and they say they pay his way to work in mines in Michigan and he say you freeze your balls off up there this is home whe... ...is like he done that man what hurt Chester. But Chavis has got to go at the army I hope they take him I already been but they didn’t take me maybe ...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

........................................................ 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH ............................................................ ... and then I knew that the Post-office had become a provision depot for the army. The official arrangements here for the public were so bad as to be ab... ...given. It no doubt may be said in excuse for this that the presence of the army round Washington caused, at that period, special inconvenience; and th... ...n remained in force; but that con- federation was an acknowledged failure. National great- ness could not be achieved under it, and individual enter- ... ...e the States, at the cost of some fond wishes, agreed to seek together for national power rather than run the risks entailed upon separate existence. ... ...ion claimed by the South for this movement is a misnomer. If any part of a nationality or empire ever rebelled against the government established on b... ...ates. I think that no State had then been admitted, as a free State, since Michigan, in 1836. In 1846 Iowa was admit- ted as a free State, and from th... ...uch rapidity as Chicago, which is considerably to the north of it, on Lake Michigan. Of the great Western cities I regard Chicago as the most remark- ... ...of M’Instry, who, scenting the carrion afar off, had come from Detroit, in Michigan, to St. Louis. M’instry himself had also come from Detroit. In thi...

...VI: CAIRO AND CAMP WOOD......................................................................................................... 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH..................................................................................................... 135 CHAPTER VIII: BACK TO BOSTON.............................................................................

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 6 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...ree government and free institutions. For the part which you and the brave army of which you are a part have, under Providence, performed in this grea... ...re prudent, it would re- quire more time to effect a junction between your army and that of the Rappahannock by the way of the Potomac and Y ork river... ...ANTON, Secre- tary of War. MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, Com- manding Army of the Potomac, before Richmond. PROCLAMATION REVOKING GENERAL HUNTER’... ...ially attained. During the ex- isting war it is peculiarly the duty of the National Government to secure to the people a sound circulating medium. Thi... ...shall operate in such manner as, while protecting western Virginia and the national capital from dan- ger or insult, it shall in the speediest manner ... ...HE SEVERAL STATES: The capture of New Orleans, Norfolk, and Corinth by the national forces has enabled the insurgents to concentrate a large force at ... ...aryland. F . H. Pierpoint, Governor of Virginia. Austin Blair, Governor of Michigan. J. B. Temple, President Military Board of Kentucky. Andrew Johnso... ...ct. The mili- tary and commercial importance of enlarging the Illinois and Michigan Canal and improving the Illinois River is presented in the report ... ...ludes part of Virginia, part of Tennessee, all of Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Kan- sas, Iowa, Minnesota, and the...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 7 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...CUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, D. C., October 30, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of Potomac: Much obliged for the information about deserters contained... ... that position. If not, let him retake his commis- sion and return to the army for the benefit of the country. This will heal a dangerous schism for ... ...ome of the voting places on election day un- less prevented by his provost-guards. He says that at some of those places Union voters will not attend ... ...ADE EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, November 3, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of Potomac: Samuel Wellers, private in Company B, Forty-ninth Pennsyl-... ...dis- lodged from that important position; and esteeming this to be of high national consequence, I recommend that all loyal people do, on receipt of t... ...ial homage and gratitude to Almighty God for this great advancement of the national cause. A. LINCOLN. PROCLAMA TION OF AMNESTY AND RECON- STRUCTION D... ...s a laboring, landless, and homeless class, will not be objected to by the National Executive. And it is suggested as not improper that in constructin... ...e war at the Dry Tortugas, Florida, where they will be sent under suitable guards by orders from army commanders. The commanding generals, who have po... ...- ware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hamp- shire, New Jersey, New Y ork, Ohio...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 5 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...endence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy. These are not our reliance against tyranny All of those ... ...it at their own pleasure; and that all others—individuals, free States and national Government—are constitutionally bound to leave them alone about it... ...ch make me believe that Edmunds and Morrill will spend this week among the National Democrats, trying to in- duce them to content themselves by voting... ...headed off, if you can. Call Wagley’s attention to it and have him and the National Democrat for Rep. to counteract it as far as they can. Y ours as e... ...ghbors in Indiana, us who live in Illinois, our neighbors in Wisconsin and Michigan. In that ordinance, drawn up not only for the government of that T... ...ugh with in Indiana, and so with Illinois, and the same substantially with Michigan and Wisconsin. Not only did that Ordinance prevail, but it was con... ...here in Ohio, our neighbors in Indi- ana, we in Illinois, our neighbors in Michigan and Wisconsin, are happy, prosperous, teeming millions of free men... ...ization which rallies around it. Y ou can scarcely scatter and disperse an army which has been formed into or- der in the face of your heaviest fire; ... ...your true friend and sincere well-wisher, A. LINCOLN. EARLY INFORMATION ON ARMY DEFECTION IN SOUTH TO D. HUNTER. (Private and Confidential.) SPRINGFIE...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

... lived less than fifty years under our Constitution. In that time no great national commotion had occurred that tested its strength, or its power of r... ...ic then subdued to settle- ment, studying the methods of local, State, and national ad- ministration, and observing the manners and habits, the daily ... ...revolution throughout the whole of Christendom. The various occurrences of national existence have every- where turned to the advantage of democracy; ... ... minority has as yet been reduced to declare open war, the necessity of an army has not been felt.* The State usually employs the officers of the town... ...ited States it must be added that, with the cessation of the contest, this army disappeared as rapidly as it had been raised. – T ranslator’s Note. 1... ...the Influence of the Executive Government External security of the Union – Army of six thousand men – Few ships – The President has no opportunity of ... ... in 1872 there were 60,000 miles of railway.] **In 1832 each inhabitant of Michigan paid a sum equiva- lent to 1 fr. 22 cent. (French money) to the po... ...e rendu de l’administration des Finances,” 1833, p. 623.) Now the State of Michigan only contained at that time 7 inhabitants per square league and Fl... ... but not more European. In the summer of 1831 I happened to be beyond Lake Michigan, at a place called Green Bay, which serves as the extreme fron- ti...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...reality till the alarm-clock rang, at seven-twenty. III It was the best of nationally advertised and quantitatively produced alarm-clocks, with all mo... ...a rod of clear glass set in nickel. The tub was long enough for a Prussian Guard, and above the set bowl was a sensational exhibit of tooth-brush hold... ...d four hundred thousand inhabitants now—he could see the top of the Second National Tower, an Indi- ana limestone building of thirty-five stories. Its... ... afternoon. Keep forgetting it.” At the Simplex Office Furniture Shop, the National Cash Register Agency, he yearned for a dictaphone, for a typewrite... ...ng, etc. Before you realize it you are striking sci- entifically, ducking, guarding and feinting, just as if you had a real opponent before you. ’” “O... ...h was running on night shift to fill an order of trac- tors for the Polish army. It hummed like a million bees, glared through its wide windows like a... ... there’d been some mistake—I thought they were putting me in the Salvation Army collection-box! At seven per each and every diem! Gosh!” “Yuh, I’ve he... ...voice which once had roused them to cheer defiance at rooters from Ohio or Michigan or Indiana, whooped, “Come on, you wombats! All together in the lo... ...four armies, depending on age. Every- body gets a military rank in his own army according to how many members he brings in, and the duffers that lie d...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

... Confederation Generale du Travail, feminism vs. haremism, Chinese lyrics, nationalization of mines, Christian Sci- ence, and fishing in Ontario. She ... ...-shelf against a wall rubbed black and scattered with official notices and army recruiting-posters. The damp, yellow-brick schoolbuilding in its cinde... ...grounds. 40 Main Street The State Bank, stucco masking wood. The Farmers’ National Bank. An Ionic temple of marble. Pure, exquisite, solitary. A bras... ...laning-mill, and the Minniemashie House, and quite a share in the Farmers’ National Bank. Him and his wife are good sports—him and Sam and I go huntin... ...oth was actually begun! On what specific reform should she first loose her army? Dur- ing the gossip after the meeting Mrs. George Edwin Mott remarked... ... appropriation from the state and combined a new city hall with a national guard ar- mory. Dave had given verdict, “What these mouthy young- sters tha... ...tie, in long strides. At each road-crossing she had to crawl over a cattle-guard of sharpened timbers. She walked the rails, balancing with arms exten... ... served as tribal gods the mines, cotton-mills, motor-factories, colleges, army. The East remembered generations when there had been no railroad, and ... ... and at the dinners of State Societies, to which the emigres from Texas or Michigan surged that they might confirm themselves in the faith that their ...

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The Trial or More Links of the Daisy Chain

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...llows of his standing. Conceit was not Aubrey’s fault. His father was more guarded than in the case of his elder sons, and the home atmosphere was not... ...own way, and I had known what was going on, I’d have got 10 The Trial the Guardians and the T own Council and routed out the place. Seventeen cases, ... ...till, and both he and Mary knelt on for some short space; then he arose in guarded stillness, hastily wiped away the tears that were streaming over hi... ...iotic of English sovereigns, enduring the Interdict on a pure principle of national independence, and devising Ma- gna Charta from his own generous br... ...auga—admirably situated—excellent water privilege, communicating with Lake Michigan—glorious primeval forest—healthy situation—fertile land—where a co... ...f Pulaski.’ ‘Ay, in one of the pestilential swamps that run up out of Lake Michigan. All the fertile ground there breeds as many fevers and agues as i... ...nch invasions, and when Mordaunt Muller had been en- rolled in the Federal army, she had almost offended the ex- ultant sister by condolence instead o... ...en, at the urgent summons of Government, he too had gone forth to join the army. Cora was advised to return to her friends at New York, but she declar... ... gave the details from the papers on the doings of Henry’s division of the army. ‘Will Henry let me be with them?’ said Leonard, musingly. ‘They will ...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...e king’s ordinary revenue, said to be grounded on the consideration of his guarding and protecting the seas from pirates and robbers, is the right to ... ...tself,” said Mr. W ebster, “is a very striking and peculiar portion of the National interest. There is a population of eight or nine thousand persons ... ... thousand persons living here in the sea, adding largely every year to the National wealth by the boldest and most persevering industry.” —Report of D... ...Herein it is the same with the American whale fishery as with the American army and military and merchant navies, and the engineering forces employed ... ...me make a clean breast of it here, and frankly admit that I kept but sorry guard. With the problem of the universe re- volving in me, how could I—bein... ...pily borne out by an official circular, issued by Lieutenant Maury, of the National Observatory, Washington, April 16th, 1851. By that circular, it ap... ...esh- water seas of ours,—Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and Su- perior, and Michigan,—possess an ocean-like expansiveness, with many of the ocean’s nob... ...bolts, and a tackle being rigged from aloft, they drag out these teeth, as Michigan oxen drag stumps of old oaks out of wild wood lands. There are gen... ...surface, must have been long enough and broad enough to shade half Xerxes’ army. Who can tell how appalling to the wounded whale must have been such h...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...king’s ordinary revenue, said to be grounded on the consid eration of his guarding and protecting the seas from pirates and robbers, is the right to ... ...itself,” said Mr. Webster, “is a very striking and peculiar portion of the National interest. There is a population of eight or nine thousand persons,... ...thousand persons, living here in the sea, adding largely every year to the National wealth by the boldest and most persevering industry.” Report of Da... ...ican whale fishery 124 Chapter 27 Knights and Squires as with the American army and military and merchant navies, and the engineer ing forces employe... ...me make a clean breast of it here, and frankly admit that I kept but sorry guard. With the problem of the universe revolving in me, how could I — bein... ...ppily borne out by an official circular, issued by Lieutenant Maury, of the National Observatory, Washington, April 16th, 1851. By that circular, it ap... ...sh water seas of ours, — Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and Su perior, and Michigan, — possess an ocean like expansiveness, with many of the ocean’s n... ...bolts, and a tackle being rigged from aloft, they drag out these teeth, as Michigan oxen drag stumps of old oaks out of wild wood lands. There are ge... ...surface, must have been long enough and broad enough to shade half Xerxes’ army. Who can tell how appalling to the wounded whale must have been such h...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

....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... ...ain? To answer these questions, the Congress and the President created the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Public Law... ... the institutions charged with protecting our borders, civil aviation, and national security did not understand how grave this threat could be, and di... ...n two alert sites, each with one pair of ready fighters: Otis Air National Guard Base in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Langley Air Force Base in Hampto... ...unknown. 146 Reagan National controllers then vectored an unarmed National Guard C- 130H cargo aircraft, which had just taken off en route to Minnesot... ... lost track of Delta 1989, and even ordered fighter aircraft from Ohio and Michigan to intercept it. The flight never turned off its transponder. NEAD... ...nted document condemned the Saudi monarchy for allowing the presence of an army of infidels in a land with the sites most sacred to Islam, and celebra... ...d States rushed out of Somalia in shame and dis- grace.” Citing the Soviet army’s withdrawal from Afghanistan as proof that a ragged army of dedicated... ... international jihad con- federation. In Sudan, he established an “Islamic Army Shura” that was to serve as the coordinating body for the consortium o...

...s 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 Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organiza...

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...ith the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether on the National or Confederate side, other than the unavoidable injustice of not m... ...Grant, and his younger brother, Solomon, held com- missions in the English army, in 1756, in the war against the French and Indians. Both were killed ... ...nd Lexington, he went with a Connecti- cut company to join the Continental army, and was present at the battle of Bunker Hill. He served until the fal... ...porter of the Government during the war, and remains a firm believer, that national success by the Democratic party means irretrievable ruin. In June,... ...regi- ment if all had been men capable of bearing arms—furnished the Union army four general officers and one colonel, West Point graduates, and nine ... ...and Lieutenant George G. Meade, afterwards the commander of the victorious National army at the battle of Gettysburg—made a reconnoissance to the Salt... ... Sackett’s Harbor, New Y ork. In April following I was ordered to Detroit, Michigan, where two years were spent with but few important incidents. The ... ...with but few important incidents. The present constitution of the State of Michigan was rati- fied during this time. By the terms of one of its provis... ...siding within the State at the time of the ratification became citizens of Michigan also. 102 Personal Memoirs During my stay in Detroit there was an...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...English feeling on the American question was as follows: “This wide-spread nationality of the United States, with its enormous territorial possessions... ...the time when Englishmen were saying how impossible it was that so great a national power should ignore its own greatness and destroy its own power by... ...ar as I could see, there was no analogy between the two cases. In India an army had mutinied, and that an army com- posed of a subdued, if not a servi... ... any sympathy shown by us to insurgent negroes. But, nevertheless, had the army which mutinied in India been in possession of ports and sea-board; had... ...es. Such license would have been de- structive to the very idea of a great nationality. Where would New England have been, as a part of the United Sta... ..., one after another, com- plaining of the contractors who were robbing the army, of the commanders who did not know how to command the army, and of th... ...against him. Up in those regions which are watered by the great lakes—Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario—and by the St. Lawrence, the ... ... stated what is the course of this line. It runs from the Western State of Michigan to Portland, on the Atlantic, in the State of Maine, sweeping the ... ...; but from such broad waters as those of Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, and Lake Michigan, the shores shelve very gradually, and have none of the materials ...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 2 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...n, and until its inhabitants fled before the approach of the United States army. Fourth. Whether that settlement is or is not isolated from any and al... ...that settlement did or did not flee from the approach of the United States army, leav- ing unprotected their homes and their growing crops, be- fore t... ...he Nueces, instead of the Rio Grande; and that, therefore, in marching our army to the east bank of the latter river, we passed the Texas line and inv... ...pport the war by levying con- tributions on Mexico. At one time urging the national honor, the security of the future, the prevention of foreign inter... ...ng all its expenses, without a purpose or defi- nite object.” So then this national honor, security of the future, and everything but territorial inde... ... 34 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two he insists that the separate national existence of Mexico shall be maintained; but he does not tell us h... ...as to not be of some general benefit. Take, for instance, the Illinois and Michigan Canal. Con- sidered apart from its effects, it is perfectly local.... ...ilitary tail you Democrats are now engaged in dovetail- ing into the great Michigander [Cass]. Yes, sir; all his bi- ographies (and they are legion) h... ...sed his great surprise at the change in the sentiments of the Senator from Michigan, who had been regarded as the great champion of freedom in the Nor...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

...a Ford....................313 Bivouac on a Mountain Side..............313 An Army Corps on the March...........314 By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame......... ...till though the one I sing, (One, yet of contradictions made,) I dedicate to Nationality, I leave in him revolt, (O latent right of insurrection! O qu... ... the eastern Chesapeake! land of the Delaware! Land of Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan! Land of the Old Thirteen! Massachusetts land! land of Vermont a... ...ly shape and mould the New World, adjusting it to Time and Space, You hidden national will lying in your abysms, conceal’d but ever alert, You past an... ...reak call—hark! how loud and clear I hear it wind, Swift! to the head of the army!—swift! spring to your places, Pioneers! O pioneers! TO Y OU Wh... ...elf to sing there arctic songs, To Kanada till I absorb Kanada in myself, to Michigan then, To Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, to sing their songs, (they ... ...talk I remember all, I remember the Declaration, It was read here, the whole army paraded, it was read to us here, By his staff surrounded the General... ...nds triune, More precious to each other than all the riches of the earth. To Michigan, Florida perfumes shall tenderly come, Not the perfumes of flowe... ... o’er all the rest, For thee, the future. I’d sow a seed for thee of endless Nationality, I’d fashion thy ensemble including body and soul, I’d show a...

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The $30,000 Bequest : And Other Stories

By: Mark Twain

...at farm, I’ve been there. It’s got a rope walk and a candle factory and an army. Standing army. Infantry and cavalry. Three soldier and a horse. Aleck... ...ever see her again in life. It is hard, so hard. She does not suspect? You guard her from that?” “She thinks you will soon be well.” “How good you are... ...ce between—yes.” “That is so good. Others one could not trust; but you two guardian angels—steel is not so true as you. Others would be unfaithful; an... ...he image of Ambulinia; while precipices on every hand surrounded me, your guard ian angel stood and beckoned me away from the deep abyss. In every ... ... wind! Turn thy force 77 Mark Twain loose like a tempest, and roll on thy army like a whirlwind, over this mountain of trouble and confusion. Oh frie... ...tittle of my promise to you; what is death to me? what is all this warlike army, if it is not to win a victory? I love the sleep of the lover and the ... ...he contrary, it is just to presume that he died permanently this time. The Michigan papers thus refer to the sorrowful event: Another Cherished Remnan... ...e of style. That thing on his hat is an eagle. The Prussian eagle— it is a national emblem. When I saw hat I mean helmet; but it seems impossible to m... ...ning? Have you seen it? Have you seen him show off? It is the sight of the national capital. Except one; a pathetic one. That is the ex Congressman: t...

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