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... http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vaknin_archive/vaknin_main.html Visit my United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! ... ..."For I am their leader." http://www.salon.com/tech/books/1999/11/04/new_optimi sm/ People who exercise violence in the pursuit of what they hold to... ...am their leader." http://www.salon.com/tech/books/1999/11/04/new_optimi sm/ People who exercise violence in the pursuit of what they hold to be jus... ...1. A hard core of idealists adopt a cause (in most cases, the freedom of a group of people). They base their claims on history - real or hastily co... ... ostentatious, trenchant and often murderous. 6. It is often the freedom fighters who compromise their freedom and the freedom of their people in ... ...the attrition war against the Russians and the Turks. In 1885, Bulgaria was at last united - north and formerly Turk-occupied south - under the Krem... ... A third group (and Delcev was, for a time, among them) wanted a federation of all states Balkan with an equal standing for a Macedonian polity (au... ...the Palace Guards in 1921 and Prime Minister eight years thereafter. Zivkovic lost no time in disbanding all political parties and (elected) m... ... Victims become butchers and butchers victims in nauseating turns. By 1944, the NDH lost half its territory either to the Germans or to the partisan...

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...t to the washroom she would have to walk near a group of the popular girls who were skipping near there. In the end, urgency over- came her fear. She ... ... her way. 5 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE “Can I play?” she asked tentatively. “Get lost, you little shit,” Roger hissed, and she scuttled back to her house, t... ...the only source of esteem in her desperate life, but it also gave the kids who picked on her more ammunition; they could add ‘brown-noser’ to their sc... ...ats. They sat in the car and watched kids climbing on the monkey bars, and people lined up to buy ice cream. “Hey,” Lacey said. “I just thought of som... ...oo. I was scared of advertising it for sale because I did not want strange people coming to the house. Now I will not have to worry. Will you take me ... ...oger’s father had gone into a nursing home and his mother had moved to the States to live with Roger’s brother. Lacey retreated into her books and spu... ...world, beautifully coifed and attired, confident and secure. But she never lost her humble inner child, and her grati- 78 SUSAN BRACKEN tude for the ... ... her company, a seed grower with two hundred em- ployees in three American states and two Canadian provinces. And then there were the endless governme... ...y excellent sites to provide information and forms. A few of these: In the United States of America: Caring Connections, National Hospice and Palliati...

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...blished in the Fall of that year. At that time the aeroplane was, for most people, merely a rumour and the “Sausage” held the air. The con- temporary ... ...n with war, the smash-up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the United States of the World for mankind. There is no other choice. Ten years... ...war, the smash-up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the United States of the World for mankind. There is no other choice. Ten years have b... ...t hardly my idea of a lady—flying about in the air, and throwing gravel at people. It ain’t what I been accus- tomed to consider ladylike, whether or ... ...terprising about young Smallways before he was out of short frocks. He was lost for a whole day before he was five, and nearly drowned in the reservoi... ...ise him in the green-grocer’s shop when T om at twenty-one married Jessica—who was thirty, and had saved a little money in service. But it was not Ber... ... and all. So Tom took his goods out himself, and sought employers for Bert who did not know of this strain of poetry in his nature. And Bert touched t... ...at British war, the Boer war, was over and for- gotten, and the public had lost the fashion of expert military criticism. Our four young people picnic... ...ness of equipment and military efficiency. The great powers were first the United States, a nation ad- dicted to commerce, but roused to military nece...

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...NS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 CONCEPTS OF GOD 45 3 WHAT IS GOD LIKE? 46 THEISM 49 PROOFS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD 53 IS AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION? 57 WHO GETS TO GO TO HEAVEN? 63 DEISM 65 PANTHEISM AND PANENTHEISM 67 AGNOSTICISM 68 ATHEISM 71 SATANISM 96 AN IDEA OF A BETTER SOCIETY AS A BASIC ASSUMPTION 97 THE SOURCE OF POWER IN A SOCIETY 104 FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF A SO...

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................................................................................................. 23 MASLOW'S CHARACTERISTICS OF SELF ACTUALIZING PEOPLE... ...ome close when my ideas of power intertwine with her ideas of self-centered motivations. The difference, of course is that I believe that most people... ...sumptions that Wanda talks about. I may have an inferiority complex, as probably we all do in varying degrees. I then may hit or kill someone who is... ...ans into one mold. Indeed, it appears that there are quite different drives and needs that motivate us. My guess is that we are not all robots who ca... ...us eye problems. The vitamin A in butter was not present in the margarine. So they began to add the vitamin to margarine. In the mid-1940s the United... ...problems. The vitamin A in butter was not present in the margarine. So they began to add the vitamin to margarine. In the mid-1940s the United States... ...40s the United States passed a law to require nutrients removed from a food to be put back in before it is sold. So processed bread, which had lost i... ...can brag about it. The bragging is more important than the winnings. If I lose, it was to be expected. But I might even brag about how much I lost, ... ...t seem to have these problems.‖ —―We guard against them. We have seen what has often happened in the Netherlands, Scandinavia and the United...

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... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. T... ... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Por... ...ronic transmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , the Pennsylvania State Uni versity, Electronic Classics ... ...rutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with despondence one who (inheriting inferior endowments from nature and un practiced in the ... ...in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Al mighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and... ...t, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for the... ...s than my own, nor those of my fellow citizens at large less than either. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the In visible Hand which c... ...PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 17 ing through blood and slaughter his long lost liberty, it was not wonderful that the agitation of the billows shou... ...ffering or regaining by more costly sacrifices and more severe struggles our lost rank and respect among independent powers. On the issue of the war a...

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...: The third section of the ?Act further to promote the efficiency of the Navy,? approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good ...

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...vy,” approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: “That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have ... ...proved 21st of December, 1861, provides: “That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the aut... ...nd such officers may, if upon the recommendation of the Presi- dent of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Congress for their ser... ...E AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: I submit herewith a list of naval officers who commanded ves- sels engaged in the recent brilliant operations of the s... ...uch as you, than to me. It is upon the brave hearts and strong arms of the people of the country that our reliance has been placed in support of free ... ...e na- 12 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six tion to the States and people most immediately interested in the subject-matter. To the people of ... .... MAJOR-GENERAL McCLELLAN: I have just been waited on by a large committee who present a petition signed by twenty-three senators and eighty-four rep-... ...ds thus confided without authority of law to unofficial persons was either lost or wasted, although apprehensions of such mis- direction occurred to m... ... position is a strong one. In a skirmish which took place this afternoon I lost one horse, The enemy lost two men killed and seven wounded. “R. Saxton...

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...asons for the strength of the link ought to be discoverable in the suddenly bared depths of the French heart. There are two ways of judging a foreign people: at first sight, impressionistically, in the manner of the passing traveller; or after residence among them, ?soberly, advisedly,? and with all the vain precautions enjoined in another grave contingency....

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...ly bared depths of the French heart. There are two ways of judging a foreign people: at first sight, impression istically, in the manner of the passin... ...ng from the same stem as many different seeming characteris tics of his own people. A period of confusion must follow, in which he will waver between... ...e, they are used simply as a loose way of drawing a line between the peoples who drink spirits and those who drink wine, between those whose social po... ...rink wine, between those whose social polity dates from the Forum, and those who still feel and legislate in terms of the primæ val forest. This use ... ...hildren of the Roman forum and the Greek amphitheatre; and even if they have lost something of the sensation “felt in the blood and felt along the hea... ...ears before the war, a French journalist produced a “thoughtful book” on the United States. Of course he laid great stress on our universal hustle for... ...fore the war, a French journalist produced a “thoughtful book” on the United States. Of course he laid great stress on our universal hustle for the do... ...ossible to ask Americans to picture our situation if Germany had invaded the United States, and had held a tenth part of our most important territory ... ... and active of thought as the French, are so subject to traditions that have lost their meaning. The fundamental cause is probably geographical. We Am...

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...n its inten- tions, but in its consequences. For it is the lot of prophets who frighten or disappoint to be stoned. But for some of us moderns, who ha... ...taken by surprise the tendency is not to say with the untrained man, “Now, who’d ha’ thought it?” but “Now, what was it we overlooked?” Everything tha... ..., and how will it affect our ways of living?” It is a question of “How are people going to take these obvi- ous things—waste of the world’s resources,... ...rstanding and overcoming of the difficulties involved. There are many more people, and there is much more intel- ligence concentrated upon the manufac... ...rren- der almost as much of their sovereignty as the constituent sovereign States which make up the United States of America have surrendered to the F... ...of their sovereignty as the constituent sovereign States which make up the United States of America have surrendered to the Federal Government; if the... ...here is no means of settling boundary dis- putes. Moreover, as between the united States of the world and the United States of America there is this f... ...n and compensation of Belgium and Serbia, and at least the autonomy of the lost Rhine prov- inces of France. That is their very minimum. That, and the... ... English, and of Ancient Greek by teachers who at best half know this fine lost language. They do not expect any real mastery of either tongue by thei...

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...e human mind, and the most to be distrusted; and yet the great majority of people trust to nothing else; which may do for ordinary life, but not for p... ...ances that I might produce, I will cite one. Ask of any person whatsoever, who is not previously prepared for the demand by a knowledge of perspective... ...which inflicts the fatal blow is not more deeply imbrued in blood that his who sits and looks on: neither can he be clear of blood who has countenance... ... corresponding improve- ment. Practice and theory must advance pari passu. People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine m... ...nd, deadly pale, Groan’d out his soul with gushing blood effus’d. Par. Lost, B. XI. Upon this, Richardson, the painter, who had an eye for ef- fec... ... who had an eye for ef- fect, remarks as follows, in his Notes on Paradise Lost, p. 497: “It has been thought,” says he, “that Cain beat (as the commo... ...ersate diurne; Especially nocturnâ. In these assassinations of princes and statesmen, there is nothing to excite our wonder; important changes often d... ...ther, warm already, became warmer; culinary and meta- physical irritations united to derange his liver: he took to his bed, and died. Such is the comm... ...ted together by cords of superstition. What else was it but her constancy, united with her angelic gentleness, that drove the fanatic English soldier—...

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...Introduction: ?For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found.? He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation....

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...ON ODUCTION ODUCTION “FOR THIS MY SON WAS DEAD, AND IS ALIVE AGAIN; HE WAS LOST; AND IS FOUND.” He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He w... ...ng that Edward Estlin Cummings had sailed on the Antilles and was reported lost. iii. A week later a third cable correcting this cruel error and sayin... ...his friend alone. My son has a mother—as brave and patriotic as any mother who ever dedicated an only son to a great cause. The mothers of our boys in... ...merican Embassy at Paris and constant efforts by my friend Richard Norton, who was head of the Norton-Harjes Am- bulance organization from which they ... ... would appear that the authorities had not even conde- scended to tell the United States Embassy where this innocent American citizen was confined; so... ...appear that the authorities had not even conde- scended to tell the United States Embassy where this innocent American citizen was confined; so that a... ...d- ded a number of times. The moustache rang. I understood that these kind people were planning to make me out the innocent victim of a wily villain, ... ... as my friend has so often said to me, the French are after all the finest people in the world.” This double-blow stopped Noyon dead, but only for a s... ...his broom and was assisting. Nearer and nearer they came; converging, they united their separate heaps of filth in a loudly stinking single mound at t...

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...sentially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief content was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the abolition of the armament industry throughout the world; they realized fully the element of industrial belligerency behind the shining armour of imperi...

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...imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief con- tent was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the a... ...e had to count, in those days, great and powerful realities. Even to those who expressed these ideas there lay visibly upon them the shadow of impract... ...e end it will burn them all. The greatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply ... ...t will burn them all. The greatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply for an ... ...thing here which was not the possible thought of great multitudes of other people, and capable of becoming the common thought of mankind. One writes i... ...d a number of other writers have been doing what they can—to bring about a united declaration of all the Atlantic Allies in favour of a League of Nati... ...here may be others whose angle of approach may be similar to the writer’s, who may have asked some or most of the questions he has had to ask, and who... ... forward account of the American side of the movement by the former United States Minister in Belgium, on the one hand, or in the concluding parts of ... ...t by the electors.” Now, I swear by Heaven that, lowly creature as I am, a lost vote, a nothing, voiceless and helpless in public affairs, I am not go...

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................................................................. 56 SHALL HE WHO MAKES, OWN ............................................................... ...t in that. There is even a sort of loyalty in it, like that of the brigand who breaks every law and yet claims to be a patriotic subject of the king w... ...here have been one or two grotesque attempts at it by in- 8 Shaw adequate people, such as the Kingdom of God in Munster, which was ended by crucifixi... ...p who took the part of Annas went home and died of horror. But responsible people have never made such attempts. The moneyed, respectable, capable wor... ...found by Christ’s will if he had undertaken the work of a modern practical statesman. Pray do not at this early point lose patience with me and shut t... ...f the Authorized Version is rapidly becoming obsolete; so that even in the United States, where the old tradition of the verbal infalli- bility of “th... ...of his powers, is rather a startling experience. Mahomet, by the way, also lost his temper when people asked him to perform miracles. But Mahomet expr... ...s. If his mission had been simply to demonstrate a new method of restoring lost eye- sight, the miracle of curing the blind would have been en- tirely... ...igarchy. Democracy in the most democratic modern republics: Prance and the United States for example, is an imposture and a delusion. It reduces justi...

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...ey were numerous, they ate and drank with perfect free- dom. The captains, who wore bronze cothurni, had placed them- selves in the central path, bene... ... water-melons and lemons, and crunched them up with the rind. The Negroes, who had never seen a lobster, tore their faces with its red prickles. But t... ...d by the inability to pay them. This debt was confused in the minds of the people with the 3200 Euboic talents exacted by Lutatius, and equally with R... ...like driving chariots. They reached the avenue of cypress, where they were lost among the crowd of those questioning them. One of them remained apart,... ...e cup he said: “Hail first to thee, Baal-Eschmoun, the deliverer, whom the people of my country call Aesculapius! and to you, genii of the fountains, ... ...d there were motionless; the brimming cisterns seemed like silver bucklers lost in the courts; the beacon on the promontory of Hermaeum was beginning ... ...nd ran after his troops, who were hastening towards those from Utica. They united so rapidly that the Suffet had not time to draw up his men in battle... ...pire. Strengthened by Punic money , the adventurer had raised the Numidian States with promises of freedom. But Narr’ Havas, warned by his nurse’ s so... ...barians would find themselves driven to the edge of the sea, and all those united forces would crush them. This would infallibly happen. Thus no means...

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...f These influences are easily recognizable in Mr. Washington to-day by men who knew Dr. Hopkins and General Armstrong. I got the cue to Mr. Washington... ...a postscript: “I have no claim to ‘Rev. ’” I knew most of the coloured men who at that time had become prominent as leaders of their race, but I had n... ...Republic; thinking of the one continuous great problem that generations of statesmen had wrangled over, and a million men fought about, and that had s... ...is to change the whole economic basis of life and the whole character of a people. The plan itself is not a new one. It was worked out at Hampton Inst... ...e period, he was necessar- 8 UP FROM SLAVERY ily misunderstood by his own people as well as by the whites, and where he had to adjust it at every ste... ...n- nection with the scene was that some man who seemed to be a stranger (a United States officer, I presume) made a little speech and then read a rath... ...able to learn the location of all these “rooms,” I many times found myself lost in the mine. To add to the horror of being lost, sometimes my light wo... ... home at Tuskegee. At that time he was paralyzed to the extent that he had lost control of his body and voice in a very large degree. Notwithstanding ... ...d of people anxious to shake hands with me. The papers in all parts of the United States published the address in full, and for months afterward there...

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................................................................................................................ 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES .................................................................... 185 CHAPTER X: THE GOVERNMENT ...................................................................................................................

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..................................... 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ................................................................ .............................. 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ....................................................................... ......................... 226 CHAPTER XI: THE LA W COURTS AND LA WYERS OF THE UNITED STATES ........................................... 242 CHAPTER XII: ... ...is well that be should make provision for a coming family. But a Benedict, who early in his career shall have carried his friends with considerable se... ... nothing. The building, therefore, is wrong side foremost, and all mankind who enter it, Senators, Representatives, and judges included, go in at the ... ...er mouth! Life in Alexan- dria at this time must have been sad enough. The people were all secessionists, but the town was held by the North- 25 Trol... ...iefly to the excel- lence of his cause, and the blood and character of the people who put him forward as their right arm in their contest; but that he... ... it stated that South Carolina, up to the time of the secession, had never lost a slave in this way—that is, by Northern opposition to the Fugitive Sl... ..., been the losing party as re- gards national power. But what they have so lost they have hitherto recovered by political address and individual state...

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...hich they earlier shake off. In every respect the burthen is hard on those who attack an almost universal opinion. They must be very fortunate well as... ... of logical requirements totally different from those ex acted from other people. In all other cases, burthen of proof is supposed to lie with the af... ...the affirmative. If a person is charged with a murder, it rests with those who ac cuse him to give proof of his guilt, not with himself to prove his ... ...it would be useless; they are insepa rable from having to contend through people’s understandings against the hostility their feelings and practical ... ...ore under the control of justice and the influence of humanity. It has not lost the taint of its brutal origin. No presumption in its favour, there f... ...who have obtained legal power because they first had physi cal, have ever lost their hold of it until the physical power had passed over to the other... ...reated. Though slaves were no part of the commonwealth, it was in the free states that slaves were first felt to have rights as hu man beings. The St... ... why need I go back to Aristotle? Did not the slave owners of the Southern United States maintain the same doctrine, with all the fanaticism with whic... ...ear more urgent. Though there are not in this country, as there are in the United States, periodical conventions and an organised party to agitate for...

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... his work will be pronounced perfect, not only by himself, but by everyone who rightly knows, or thinks that he knows, the intention and aim of its au... ...ings artificial, and such ideas they hold as types, believing that Nature (who they think does nothing without an object) has them in view, and has se... ...lows from that pleasurable or painful emotion (II:xxii.). But this idea is united to the emotion in the same way as mind is united to body (II:xxi.); ... ...ture. For if, for example, two individuals of entirely the same nature are united, they form a combination twice as powerful as either of them singly.... ...far as they are assailed by those emotions, which are passions, or passive states; and to this extent one and the same man is variable and inconstant.... ... already in his possession, while Paul has the idea of the loved object as lost. Hence the one man will be affected with pleasure, the other will be a... ...the fact, that a man may be called proud from his underestimation of other people; and, therefore, pride in this sense may be defined as pleasure aris... ...n order to enjoy greater freedom, desires to possess the general rights of citizenship. Q.E.D. Note.– These and similar observations, which we have ma...

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...e Three NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM INTRODUCTORY NOTE UPON MY RETURN to the United States a few months ago, after the extraordinary series of adventure... ... NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM INTRODUCTORY NOTE UPON MY RETURN to the United States a few months ago, after the extraordinary series of adventure in the... ...cident threw me into the society of several gentlemen in Rich- mond, V a., who felt deep interest in all matters relating to the regions I had visited... ...lt deep interest in all matters relating to the regions I had visited, and who were constantly urging it upon me, as a duty, to give my narrative to t... ...te as ready for any fun or frolic as any Augustus Barnard in Nantucket. We lost no time in getting on our clothes and hurrying down to the boat. She w... ...ld through exhaustion, and, falling into the sea, had given himself up for lost. During the whole period of his struggles he had not the faintest reco... ...e to share my dreary solitude, and render me comfort by his caresses. Most people love their dogs—but for Tiger I had an affection far more ardent tha... ... or any thing of that kind; but windmills, ships, large birds, bal- loons, people on horseback, carriages driving furiously, and similar moving object... ...er as far as we could on the ladder, and giving a pull against it with our united strength, succeeded in breaking it down. The third attempt was equal...

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...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisa...

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...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 Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation?and Nonadaptation?...

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... Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–... ...(1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) ... ...MS 215 7.1 First Arrivals in California 215 7.2 The 9/11 Pilots in the United States 223 7.3 Assembling the Teams 231 7.4 Final Strategies and... ...esident of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans and five... ...nearly every senior official from the current and previous administrations who had responsibility for topics covered in our mandate. We have sought to... ...mitted to share as much of our investi- gation as we can with the American people.T o that end, we held 19 days of hearings and took public testimony ... ...urrounding 9/11 and to identify lessons learned. We learned about an enemy who is sophisticated, patient, disciplined, and lethal.The enemy rallies br... ...ponder was turned off and even primary radar contact with the aircraft was lost.The Indianapolis Air Traffic Control Center repeat- edly tried and fai... ...Executive Vice President Gerard Arpey learned that communications had been lost with American 77.This was now the sec- ond American aircraft in troubl...

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...CIAL PANACEAS...................................................................................................................... 61 SYNDICALISM OR CITIZENSHIP............................................................................................. 66 THE GREAT STATE ........................................................................................................

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.............................................................. 175 IS THERE A PEOPLE? ...................................................................... ...l, I think, regret that being so near we were not among the fortunate ones who saw that little flat shape skim land- ward out of the blue; surely they... ... an astonishing effect of ease, that was incredible not simply to ignorant people but to men well informed in these mat- ters. It cannot be fifteen ye... ...his has been achieved. And now our insularity is breached by the foreigner who has got ahead with flying. It means, I take it, first and foremost for ... ...rom the Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the spring and return in the autumn. Again, there is a str... ... Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the spring and return in the autumn. Again, there is a stream of ... ... Europe. Compared with any European country, the whole popula- tion of the United States is fluid. Equally notable is the enor- mous proportion of the... ...al entanglements greatly strengthen the bonds of an empire in any case. We lost the American colonies because we interfered with their fiscal ar- rang... ...r—or, at least, how Euro- pean—the essentials of this quarrel are. We have lost our tempers, but Canada has not. There is nothing in Germany to make C...

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...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject sp...

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...T. No. 1 General Introduction For the Independent Journal. HAMILTON To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the ine... ...overnment, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehend... ...nt, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in ... ...It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the importa... ...tate establishments; and the per- verted ambition of another class of men, who will either hope to aggrandize themselves by the confusions of their co... ...ance, if duly at- tended to, would furnish a lesson of moderation to those who are ever so much persuaded of their being in the right in any controver... ...he prosperity of the people of America depended on their continuing firmly united, and the wishes, prayers, and efforts of our best and wisest citizen... ...r to those by which it had been effected, to reinstate themselves in their lost pre-eminence. Thus, we should, in a little time, see established in ev... ...s in itself an inexhaustible mine of national wealth, would be stifled and lost, and poverty and disgrace would overspread a country which, with wisdo...

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...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of...

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...tive and Inductive” P P P P Pr r r r reface eface eface eface eface THOSE WHO HAVE DONE ME THE HONOR of reading my previ ous writings will prob... ...rals (if I may continue to call them what they still call themselves) have lost confidence in the political creeds which they nominally profess, while... ...hem up to insist on having it, is the order of ideas in the minds of those who adopt this view of political philosophy. They look upon a constitution ... ..., and adapt ourselves to them. The fundamental political institutions of a people are considered by this school as a sort of organic growth from the n... ...y this school as a sort of organic growth from the nature and life of that people; a product of their habits, instincts, and unconscious wants and des... ...equisites of civilized life have nothing else to rest on. These deplorable states of feel ing, in any people who have emerged from savage life, are, ... ...agacity, must be the guides. There is also another consideration not to be lost sight of. A people may be unprepared for good institutions; but to kin... ... and convictions of those whose personal position is different, and by the united authority of the instructed. When, therefore, the instructed in gene... ... in the opposite type. The striving, go ahead character of England and the United States is only a fit subject of disapproving criticism on ac count ...

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...rds she greeted Prince V asili Kuragin, a man of high rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. Anna Pavlovna had had a cough... ...and with the gentle, patronizing intonation natural to a man of importance who had grown old in society and at court. He went up to Anna Pavlovna, kis... ...was gradually filling. The highest Petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age and character but alike in the social circle... ...d he stood waiting for an op- portunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing. CHAPTER III ANNA PA VLOVNA’S RECEPTION was in ful... ...ilies in Russia, but she was poor, and having long been out of society had lost her 10 War & Peace former influential connections. She had now come t... ...answer you all at once?” said Prince Andrew. “Besides, in the actions of a states- man one has to distinguish between his acts as a private person, as... ...u to it. Excuse me, Vicomte—I must tell it in Russian or the point will be lost....” And Prince Hippolyte began to tell his story in such Russian as a... ... up in you, and that in spite of the distance separating us our hearts are united by indissoluble bonds, my heart rebels against fate and in spite of ... ... his soul. He firmly believed in the possibility of the brotherhood of men united in the aim of supporting one another in the path of virtue, and that...

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...their settlement in Windsor, and he soon after married the widow Rockwell, who, with her first husband, had been fellow-passengers with him and his fi... ...arn a trade. He went first, I believe, with his half-brother, Peter Grant, who, though not a tanner himself, owned a tannery in Maysville, Kentucky. H... ...untry ruined 8 Personal Memoirs beyond recovery when the Democratic party lost control in 1860. Her family, which was large, inherited her views, wit... ...chool, many of whom have filled conspicuous places in the service of their States. T wo of my contemporaries there —who, I believe, never attended any... ...ation my father re- ceived a letter from the Honorable Thomas Morris, then United States Senator from Ohio. When he read it he said to me, Ulysses, I ... ...and but few east; and above all, there were no reporters prying into other people’s private affairs. Consequently it did not become generally known th... ...uld not write to Hamer for the appointment, but he wrote to Thomas Morris, United States Senator from Ohio, informing him that there was a vacancy at ... ...s in imitation of mine. The joke was a huge one in the mind of many of the people, and was much enjoyed by them; but I did not appreciate it so highly... ...op. When I came to the surface again, being a fair swimmer, and not having lost my presence of mind, I swam around until a bucket was let down for me,...

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...ly similar fashion we speak of the life of a savage tribe, of the Athenian people, of the American nation. “Life” covers customs, institutions, belief... ... language, beliefs, ideas, or social standards. Each individual, each unit who is the carrier of the life-experi- ence of his group, in time passes aw... ...up —its future sole representatives— and the maturity of the adult members who possess the knowledge and customs of the group. On the other hand, ther... ...ter of life- experi- ence. The permanent social interests are likely to be lost from view. Those which have not been carried over into the structure o... ...tered in connection with an action which is participated in by a number of people. When the mother is taking the infant out of doors, she says “hat” a... ..., trans- portation, intercommunication, and emigration, countries like the United States are composed of a combination of different groups with differ... ...- portation, intercommunication, and emigration, countries like the United States are composed of a combination of different groups with different tra... ... transformation in the interests of social life—physical things which have lost their original quality in becoming social tools—it is appropriate that... ...wledge re- sults if the mind discriminates and combines things as they are united and divided in nature itself. But the im- portant thing for educatio...