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...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ...dence have now been established at V VOICES FROM THE PAST xiv the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Bens... ...Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collect... ... I earned about $3,000 or $4,000, good for a town that already had eleven lawyers. Springfield, in those days, offered better legal services than sid... ...hildren, reapers, sowers, which comes first? Which the most important? We Americans expropri- ate, accomplish, destroy. The rough rock becomes polish... ...the slaves on board those vessels have been returned to Liberia. Now, an American ship, the Erie, out of Portland, has been captured off the West A... ... and woman who is among the fin- est. Among them there must be inventors, lawyers, doctors, preachers, teachers—men who never had a chance. It is my...

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...s if for emphasis: “No one wanted the Jews. The British sealed off Palestine. The Americans imposed immigration quotas. The Jews merely abused our... ...Hitler made his Vice- Chancellor, von Papen, publish an open letter addressed to the American Chamber of Commerce and saying that Jews were safe in G... .... “Read” – she pointed at an official looking document – “It’s a report from the American Embassy in Berlin. See what it says about Hitler? ‘Hitle... ...ble minority of the Jews - from most anti-Jewish measures. Two thirds of all Jewish lawyers remained fully employed and very few Jewish children wer... ...eing said, we have tried everything. We sent couriers with peace offers to both the Americans and the British. We released prisoners from concentrat... ...ly: “You’d be surprised.” – he exclaims – “The problem is that we won’t give the Americans iron-clad guarantees regarding the fate of Hitler. If w...

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...olate Chip Cookie Company changed my life-and it also changed the face of American business. I opened the first gourmet chocolate chip cookie store ... ... to partake of because Friday was also the day "the eagle flew"-the black American colloquialism for payday. And when Ruby got to work frying up fis... ...ed shirt and Panama hat now reside in the Smith­ sonian National Museum of American History in the Business Americana Collection. That hat and shirt,... ...seum, valued them as symbols of being able to create your own destiny-the American Dream. To me they are a testament to the power of faith, commitme... ... I did not even think about literacy. But when I learned that millions of Americans could not read or write, I approached LV A and offered my servic... ...at spirit of joy and festivity. The only people not celebrating were the lawyers at The (Nameless) Amos Cookie Company. At this point, I had also b...

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...Why do Asians really get straight A's? Why do Asians really become doctors and lawyers? Why do Asians really play the piano? Many people believe that the reason has to do with the pressure to perform and the pressure to conform, however, it goes much deeper than that—much, much deeper! This didactic nov...

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...do Asians really get straight A's? Why do Asians really become doctors and lawyers? Why do Asians really play the piano? Many people believe that ... ... I should become a doctor or a lawyer. Is it because doctors save lives and lawyers protect the innocent? I bet they didn't know that doctors these ... ...protect the innocent or do — they? I read in the paper about how a group of lawyers filed motions against DNA testing for prison inmates sentenced b... ...were found innocent, it would obviously be catastrophic for these insidious lawyers; money over morals, I suppose. Now, I'm not exactly Mother There... ...ually comprised of minorities, not Caucasian. And as everyone knows, Native Americans were here first when they massively outnumbered early European... ...ucasians in America have mixed — blood: Jewish blood, Spanish blood, Native American blood, and even African blood. Also, don't you find it ironic t... ...d since we're the minorities, we've been emblematically segregated as Asian Americans, African Americans, and even Jewish Americans, but the strange... ...wish Americans, but the strange thing is that I've never heard of Caucasian Americans. More importantly, why can't we all just be called Americans, ... ..., why can't we all just be called Americans, since all of us are, after all, Americans? My parents wouldn't care, though, since they only care about o...

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...it stays with you." Jerome Shestack, Esq., former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Past President of the American Bar Association, and 2006 winner of the American Bar Association Medal. "Wonderful book. I tried to persuade my wife, Kim, that some of the Bad Law stories were fictional, but she didn't believe me." Richard Pl...

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... II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam and Lib... ...pire V. The Democratic Ideal and New Colonialism VI. Add Me to the List VII. The American Hostel VIII. The Semi-failed State The War in Afghan... ...sons XIV. The Iraqi and the Madman XV. Just War or Just a War? The Roots of Anti-Americanism By: Dr. Sam Vaknin The United States is one of the... ...'s findings. The most startling and unambiguous revelation was the extent of anti-American groundswell everywhere: among America's NATO allies, in... ...TO allies, in developing countries, Muslim nations and even in eastern Europe where Americans, only a decade ago, were lionized as much-adulated li... ...xpats and immigrants for the future administration of the war-torn country. Some 40 lawyers from Europe and North America will complete tomorrow a f...

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...erstand the connection between the ac- tions of two demented criminals and Americans in general, but it didn’t occur to her to challenge Roger’s wisdo... ... as a nanny. He’s an aero- nautical engineer, and was poached by the North Americans 47 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE back in the fifties. They moved to Toront... ...r Conrad Black was guilty, what Tony Blair would do in retirement, whether Americans would ever elect an African-American president, and on and on, wi... ... able for her company, a seed grower with two hundred em- ployees in three American states and two Canadian provinces. And then there were the endless... ...te of his hedge fund, the disaster that the Democrats were foisting on the American public, and his irri- tation at old age. Sarah touched her hand un... ...Ph.D., Eds., (essays by multi-disciplinary authors: medical professionals, lawyers, philosophers, a theologian), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004 ...

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...- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American continent -- Killing of Thorwald by natives -- His last instru... ...- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville in the war for American independence 415- 422 CHAPTER XL. A Brief Biography of Captain... ..................................................... 54 Thorfinn's voyage to the American shores................................. 55 Killing of the firs... ...of gold, according to the authority of Strabo. If crowns are meant, the sum in American money was $43,500,000. This is almost inconceivable, yet the s... ...extended his voyage westward until he had traversed the Atlantic and landed on American shores about 340 before Christ, as already explained. There is... ...claims to court, De Casse returning to France to manage the case, and the best lawyers at the French bar were retained to advocate the cause of the fr... ...a final settlement being made, however, it was discovered that costs, fees and lawyers' charges exceeded this sum, as the brethren of the long robe di...

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...will not call them), who are now at large and working more piracies in his American ocean, which the Pope gave him. (He and the Pope should guard it, ... ...shore. None’ll hinder you. They’re all gone mad on these coasts—French and American together. ’Tisn’t my notion o’ war.” Pierre was an old King Louis ... ...s are a seemly, quiet people, and they’d had trouble enough from white men—American and English—during the wars, to keep ‘em in that walk. They lived ... ...ir own opinions (I’ve heard ‘em) about the French and the English, and the Americans. They’d suffered from all of ‘em during the wars, and they only w... ...the same, only t’other way round, and besides searching, they was pressing American citizens into their Navy to help them fight France, on pretence th... ...stare at the river, you young fool! —and all in front of these pig-jobbing lawyers and citizens he makes himself Consul, which is as good as a King. H...

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...asin belongs to by the make of it. Name it in horse talk, and could do it in American if I had speech. I know some of the Indian signs — the signs the... ...A scout horse that has a reputation does not play with it. My mother was all American — no alkali spider about her, I can tell you; she was of the bes... ...’s only disputing, and bragging, the way children do. They want her to be an American, but she can’t be any thing but a Spaniard, she says. You see, ... ...ladies, gentlemen, state officials, generals, admirals, soldiers, sail ors, lawyers, thieves, merchants, brokers, cooks, housemaids, scullery maids, ... ..., scullery maids, doubtful women, dudes, gamblers, beggars, loafers, tramps, American ladies, gentlemen, preachers, En glish ladies, gentlemen, preac...

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...cks was very red, the mangle with its put-up board was white-scrubbed, the American oil-cloth on the table had a gay pattern, there was a warm fire, t... ...o quiet, they had the dangerous impassivity of the Bohemian, Pari- sian or American rather than English. “Cigarette, Julia?” said Robert to his wife. ... ...ing that proud, rather stiff bend of her head was. She had some aboriginal American in her blood. But as she looked, she pursed her mouth. The artist ... ...bead-work, in different layers. She bowed to various acquaintances— mostly Americans in uniform, whom she had known in Paris. She smiled to Lady Cochr... ...tics—even niggers are better than Asiatics, though they are wallowers— the American races—and the South Sea Islanders—the Marquesans, the Maori blood.... ...yle. “Then who would be the masters?—the professional classes, doctors and lawyers and so on?” “What? Masters. They would be the sewerage slaves, as b...

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...ase him from prison, she paid all his debts; a mountain of bills, with the lawyers piled above—Pelion upon Ossa, to quote our poets. In fact, obeying ... ...the treasure-laden Spanish galleon for whom, on her voyage home from South American waters, our enter- prising light-craft privateers lay in wait, she... ...o money let me not hear it to-night,’ she replied. ‘I can only say that my lawyers have instructions. But my lawyers cannot pay you in gratitude. Do n...

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... sea cockfight it is, and of the hottest; where British Serapis and French-American Bon Homme Richard do lash and throttle each other, in their fashio... ...s of Federates, of this Fed- eration, will have enough to do! Harangue of ‘American Committee, ’ among whom is that faint figure of Paul Jones ‘as wit... ...ffete Scutcheons, Emblazonries and Genealogy-books; nay better still, with Lawyers’-bags, ‘sacs de procedure:’ which shall be burnt. The Thirty seat-r... ...fore the evolutions are gone through. The very Mai with its Scutcheons and Lawyers’-bags is for- 240 The French Revolution—V olume Two gotten, stands... ...ournalist Carra, Camille Desmoulins, Alsatian Westermann friend of Danton, American Fournier of Martinique;—a Committee not unknown to Mayor Petion, w...

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...ord!” in a voice of sonorous complaint on the instant of his rising. A few lawyers’ clerks and others who know this suitor by sight linger on the chan... ...s to it understand it least, but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes without coming to a total disagr... ...ether as old iron, had once belonged to doors of rooms or strong chests in lawyers’ offices. The litter of rags tumbled partly into and partly out of ... ...to do with them selves, they had come through the wet to see it. They are lawyers. He says he is not in Mr. T ulkinghorn’s office, but he is sure he ... ... Guppy, divest ing himself of his wet dreadnought in the hall. “Us London lawyers don’t often get an out, and when we do, we like to make the most of... ...ghts as I lie here. T ake an extreme case. T ake the case of the slaves on American plantations. I dare say they are worked hard, I dare say they don’...

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...tenance. A Decree much noised of by Diplomatists, Editors, Interna- tional Lawyers; such a Decree as no living Fetter of Despo- tism, nor Person in Au... ...uses broken into (by a tumult of Patri- ots, among whom red-capped Varlet, American Fournier loom forth, in the darkness of the rain and riot); had th... ...ll chief Republicans, ranged in a line there; the most eloquent in France; Lawyers too; not without friends in the auditory. How will Tinville prove t...

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...y grandsire, the inditer of this goodly matter, was rather lengthy, as our American friends say. Indeed, I reserve the rest of the piece until I can o... ...ve gone more or less beyond the moderamen inculpatae tutelae, spoken of by lawyers; but the punishment incurred would have been that of manslaughter, ... ...rvade every civilized country. Amongst their mountains, as among the North American Indians, the various tribes were wont to make war upon each other,...

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...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ... ...he worst outcomes of the power drive is using violence to achieve our ends. Either it is the Crips fighting the Bloods, Cain killing Abel, the Americ... ... warlike mentalities the kill ratios went up in World War II. Japanese as yellow bellied slant-eyed sadists who would dive their bombers into Americ... ...elt. After all, we all expect the clergy to be saintly, but in business we expect some crooks, and of course in Lee‘s profession we expect all lawyer... ...ng it into a lake. Her defense was that she had been repeatedly raped as a child by her stepfather. The effects of these rapes was held by the lawyer... ...in school.‖ —―Like we say, when you find yourself in a deep hole, stop digging. But back to your Supreme Court. I thought that your lawyer... ... politically correct and afraid to hurt anyone‘s feelings. Maybe you‘re afraid to be sued for defamation of character. I don‘t know. But your lawyer...

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...rld peace. There are a few special secretaries employed by phil- anthropic Americans, and that is about all. There has been no provision made even for... ... the White House, by the clash of political parties, by interferences with American overseas trade and the security of American citizens. He has no mo... ... so suicidal a possibility. America too, it may be, will develop some Pan- American equivalent. Probably the hundred millions of Latin America may ach... ...owers left— the anti-German allies, the allied Central Europeans, the Pan- Americans. And it is to be noted that, whatever the constitu- ents of these... ...in it anything to shock fundamen- tally the princes, the diplomatists, the lawyers, the statesmen and politicians, the nationalists and suspicious peo... ...fully, with much internal bickering, with much trickery on the part of her lawyers, and much baseness on the part of her landlords; but she will do it... ... the European States after the war will grow up in the common European and American mind; public men on either side will indicate concordance with thi... ... burglars and forgers, and kept the dice loaded in favour of landlords and lawyers, the State stood aside from the great drama of human getting. For i... ...the tradition of their birth and upbringing? Next comes the great class of lawyers who, through the idiotic method of voting in use in modern democrac...

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...HER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................

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................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ................................................ ...condly, in hav- ing made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on ... ...form; and so far otherwise, that a period of several years in Kate’s South American life is confessedly suppressed; and on no other ground whatever th... ...rring themselves indifferently from town to country, from country to town; lawyers, clergymen, medi- cal men, magistrates, local judges, &c., all shif... ... so many thousand pounds, paid down according to the rate agreed on by the lawyers of the two parties; or, strictly speaking, quarrelled on between th... ...stances of the city. But, leaving the emperor’s rights as a ques- tion for lawyers, you, sir, are a soldier,—I question not, a brave one,—will you adv... ...and difficulty of conducting a perplexed examination. These assessors were lawyers of a low class, who tempered the exercise of their official duties ... ...e true dispute is, whether, after having learned that the laborer lived in American plenty, we shall have at all approximated to the appreciation of h...