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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 O...

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...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xii... ...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...ment 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 B... ...M 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 Buil... ...adin 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 Afghani... ...TERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadaptation— ...in the... ... carry-on belongings.The screening was in place to identify and confiscate weapons and other items prohibited from being carried onto a commercial fli... ...ed:“The cockpit is not answering, somebody’s stabbed in business class—and I think there’s Mace—that we can’t breathe—I don’t know , I think we’re get... ...o American 11 in hijacker seating and in eyewitness reports of tactics and weapons, as well as the contact between the presumed team leaders,Atta and ...

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...ing in this gentle breeze, That blows from the green fields and from the clouds And from the sky; it beats against my cheek, And seems half conscious of the joy it gives. O welcome messenger! O welcome friend! A captive greets thee, coming from a house Of bondage, from yon city?s walls set free, A prison where he hath been long immured. Now I am free, enfranchised and at l...

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...Table of Contents: Book First Introduction: Childhood and School-time, 1 -- Book Second Childhood and School-time (Continued), 20 -- Book Third Residence at Cambridge, 34 -- Book Fourth Summer Vacation, 53 -- Book Fifth Books, 67 -...

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...don . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Book Eighth Retrospect: Love of Nature Leading to Love of Mankind . 126 Book Ninth Residence in France... ...Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 ii The Prelude of 1805 Book First Introduction: Childhood and School time OH, there is ... ...rom yon city’s walls set free, A prison where he hath been long immured. Now I am free, enfranchised and at large, May fix my habitation where I will. ... ...ll receive me, in what vale Shall be my harbour, underneath what grove Shall I take up my home, and what sweet stream Shall with its murmurs lull me t... ...ray, And to the combat, Lu or Whist, led on thick ribbed Army; not as in the world Neglected and ungratefully thrown by Even for the very service they... ... The gravitation and the filial bond 265 Of nature, that connect him with the world. Emphatically such a Being lives, An inmate of this active universe... ...at times Rebellious, acting in a devious mood, A local spirit of its own, at war With general tendency, but for the most 390 Subservient strictly to t... ...f awakened from sleep, the nations hailed Their great expectancy; the fife of war Was then a spirit stirring sound indeed, A blackbird’s whistle in a v... ...te—not wise enough to avoid. 655 Giants in their impiety alone, But in their weapons and their warfare base As vermin working out of reach, they leagu...

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...h doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two c...

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... Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...3 Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne PART ONE CHAPTER I A SHIFTING REEF T HE YEAR 1866 was signalised by a remarkable inci dent, ... ...of the marvellous, we can understand the excitement produced in the entire world by this supernatural apparition. As to classing it in the list of fab... ...the Sea CHAPTER II PRO AND CON AT THE PERIOD when these events took place, I had just returned from a scientific research in the disagreeable territor... ...heory, plausible as it was, could not stand against inquiries made in both worlds. That a private gentleman should have such a machine at his command ... ... disastrous times, when the inge- nuity of man has multiplied the power of weapons of war, it was possible that, without the knowledge of others, a St... ... times, when the inge- nuity of man has multiplied the power of weapons of war, it was possible that, without the knowledge of others, a State might t... ...ers, a State might try to work such a formidable engine. But the idea of a war machine fell before the declara- tion of Governments. As public interes... ...fold, give it strength proportionate to its size, lengthen its destructive weapons, and you obtain the animal re- quired. It will have the proportions...

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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential t...

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... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...d off. He would have seen that, at the end of the most destruc- tive civil war that ever occurred, when animosities of the bitterest sort had banished... ...t the power of the United States to withstand the severest shocks of civil war. Could he have traced the further course of events until they open the ... ... resolved by personal observation of the re- sults of democracy in the New World to ascertain its natural consequences, and to learn what the nations ... ..., nothing struck me more forcibly than the general equality of conditions. I readily dis- covered the prodigious influence which this primary fact exe... ...new maxims to the governing powers, and pe- culiar habits to the governed. I speedily perceived that the influence of this fact extends far beyond the... ...erned something analogous to the spec- 13 Tocqueville tacle which the New World presented to me. I observed that the equality of conditions is daily ... ...ture became an arsenal where the poorest and the weakest could always find weapons to their hand. In perusing the pages of our history, we shall scarc... ...ted States, the truth of what I advance will become obvious. The two chief weapons which parties use in order to en- sure success are the public press...

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...Excerpt: CHORUS. Not marching in the fields of Thrasymene, Where Mars did mate the warlike Carthagens; Nor sporting in the dalliance of love, In courts of kings where state is overturn?d; Nor in the pomp of proud audacious deeds, Intends our Muse to vaunt her heavenly ...

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... Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ..., and are to be sold at his shop without Newgate, 1631, 4to. In a few places I have amended the text of this play by means of 4to 1604.—I have made no... ...ustus – Marlowe 6 Ay, these are those that Faustus most desires. O, what a world of profit and delight, Of power, of honour, and omnipotence, Is pro... ...The German Valdes and Cornelius; Request them earnestly to visit me. WAGNER. I will, sir. [Exit.] FAUSTUS. Their conference will be a greater help to ... ... Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates; I’ll have them read me ... ...reign sole king of all the provinces; Yea, stranger engines for the brunt of war, Than was the fiery keel at Antwerp bridge, I’ll make my servile spir... ...e that conjurer slain! If you will aid me in this enterprise, Then draw your weapons and be resolute; If not, depart: here will Benvolio die, But Fau... ...Marlowe 53 on a drum; after him another, bearing an ensign; and divers with weapons; MEPHISTOPHILIS with fire works. They set upon the SOLDIERS, driv... ...HOLAR . Was this fair Helen, whose admired worth Made Greece with ten years’ war afflict poor T roy? THIRD SCHOLAR . T oo simple is my wit to tell her...

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Excerpt: Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme Liberata) by Torquato Tasso (first pub. Parma, Italy 1581), translated by Edward Fairfax (London 1600).

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...Index A A blow felled Artaxerxes, with a thrust 466 A branch of Est there in the Guelfian tree 392 A bugle small he winded loud and shrill, 162 ?A burning fire, so are those deserts charmed, 307 A Christian once, Macon he now adores, 27 A dreadful thunder-clap at last he heard, 402 A f...

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.... Parma, Italy 1581), trans. Edward Fairfax (London 1600) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...d tyrant Juda’s land that guides, In fear and trouble, to resist provides. I The sacred armies, and the godly knight, That the great sepulchre of Chri... ...armies, and the godly knight, That the great sepulchre of Christ did free, I sing; much wrought his valor and foresight, And in that glorious war much... ...d free, I sing; much wrought his valor and foresight, And in that glorious war much suffered he; In vain ‘gainst him did Hell oppose her might, In vai... ...ill these lines with other praise than thine. III Thither thou know’st the world is best inclined Where luring Parnass most his sweet imparts, And tru... ...season now was come and gone, That forced them late cease from their noble war, When God Almighty form his lofty throne, Set in those parts of Heaven ... ... As it is hence up to the highest star), Looked down, and all at once this world beheld, Each land, each city, country, town and field. VIII All thing... ... The people made her room, and on them twain Her piercing eyes their fiery weapons dart, Silent she saw the one, the other ‘plain, The weaker body lod... ...nto their church we bring: Let Ismen with his squares and trigons war, His weapons be the staff, the glass, the ring; But let us manage war with blows...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts s...

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...Contents CHAPTER I: THE FOREIGNER AT HOME ..................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER II: SOME COLLEGE MEMORIES..................................................................................

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...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...nia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents CHAPTER I: THE FOREIGNER AT HOME ..................................................... ... gone before us in the battle – taken together, they build up a face that “I have loved long since and lost awhile,” the face of what was once myself.... ...dred miles between Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Book English has gone round the world, but at home we still preserve the racy idioms of our fathers, and ev... ...tory. A passing enthusiasm for some foreign art or fashion may deceive the world, it cannot impose upon his intimates. He may be amused by a foreigner... ... And that same night he was tossing in a brain fever. People are afraid of war and wounds and dentists, all with excellent reason; but these are not t... ...to civilities; his hail at sight of me began to have less of the ring of a war- slogan; soon, we never met but he produced his snuff-box, which was wi... ...nding, should hear these young fellows talking of his own subject, his own weapons that he had fought the battle of life with, – “and – h’m – not unde...