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...y excellent manners, which proved him a man of society. He dined out every day, and played cards every evening. He was thought witty, thanks to his fo... ...s thought witty, thanks to his foible for relating a quantity of anecdotes on the reign of Louis XV. and the beginnings of the Revolution. When these ... ...ogy is so busy with the human heart. The incandescence, so to call it, was on the left side. Though his long slim legs, supporting a lank body, and hi... ... confirmed this declaration; but in a re- gion where repasts are developed on the line of thirty or forty dishes and last four hours, the chevalier’s ... ...glass, like all pro- vincial houses, it was discreet as a robber’s cave. A born confidant to all the little intrigues of the work- rooms, the chevalie... ...e then slipped away to her new victim, whose biography must here be given. Born of an old Alencon family, du Bousquier was a cross between the bourgeo... ...iselle Cormon’s sa- lon at its true value, it will suffice to say that the born statis- tician of the society, du Bousquier, had estimated that the pe... ...ating herself; on the contrary, she set every sail bravely, ran up all her flags, assumed the bear- ing of the queen of Alencon, and boasted of her ex... ...dy to satisfy his vendetta, himself threw down with his own hand the white flag of the mayoralty to the applause of the multitude. No man in France ca...

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...The longest running independent newspaper at Williams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive finan...

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...arch J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands and oiroled around the... ...Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands and oiroled around the bon- fire on the old OHinpuH Saturday night and sang " TheMountains, " all enmity bet... ...he transparencies, the sharp, short struggle between the two lower classes on the old campus, the speeches and the final burial of the enormous tin ha... ...d in the progress of their development in the art of painting. Raphael wos born in Urbino, Italy, a distinctly rural land, rolling in hills. He was fo... ...ntings reveal more and more a tendency toward the orti- ficial. Rembrandt, born in Leyden, Holland, was surrounded by dis- tinctly Dutch scenery. At f... ... city, died in Denver, -Col. on March 4, at the age of 73. Mr. Calhoun was born in Boston on May 27, 1836 and graduated from WillianiB in the class of... ...and white bunt- ing with the usual adornment of Williams and 1909 banners, flags and pennants. A Williams shield in bronze was added to the white bunt... ...luipliia, Haverford being only a few miles from that city. 1910 Wins First Flag Rush Immediately after the M. A. C. game on Saturday, a flag rush Ije-... ...a flag rush Ije- tween the lower classes was held on Weston Field. A white flag, on which were the sophomore nu- merals, was nailed to the flag pole n...

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...uction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the liberties of its people can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emerge...

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...f-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: “It has long been... ...ple can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergen- cies. On this point, the present rebellion brought our re- public to a severe tes... ...e twin gulfs of immorality and inefficiency—the gulfs which always lie one on each side of the careers alike of man and of nation. It helps nothing to... ...fe. His was indeed a marvellous growth. The statesman or the military hero born and reared in a log cabin is a famil- iar figure in American history; ... ... of April, 1861, the first gun was fired in Charleston harbor on the Union flag upon Fort Sumter, the call was sounded, and the Northern people rushed... ...p, now more slowly, then more rapidly, but with increasing steadiness, the flag of the Union advanced from field to field toward the final con- summat... ...ly decided, but not yet ended. Sherman was irresistibly carrying the Union flag through the South. Grant had his iron hand upon the ramparts of Richmo... ... we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan; to do all which may ach... ...my pen To make me own this hind—of princes peer, This rail-splitter—a true born king of men.” Fiction can furnish no match for the romance of his life...

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...of the Web Of Life and his duties as it's protector. The Web of Life, they believe, is the symbiotic connection that exists between all living things on Earth; the sacred balance of life. Upon the next day's passing, Seattle signs the Port Eliot treaty relinquishing ownership of Suquamish ancestral lands to the United States government in favor of a small reservation t...

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...viding public access to the world's most complete collection of electronic books on-line as well as offer a variety of services and resources that su... ...ago had been fashioned into a fishing pole. He had been sitting for most of the day on a flat boulder along the bank ofthe river. A thin rawhide str... ...had been fashioned into a fishing pole. He had been sitting for most of the day on a flat boulder along the bank ofthe river. A thin rawhide string ... ... the cun­ ning silver fish. But for most of the day the old man's thoughts were on tomorrow: a day he feared, but knew had to come. As he stared int... ...ist firmly and tell him that his bloodline had begun long before the forest was born and that the spirit of his ancestors had The Soul Bearer :I c... ...owd gathered in their respective places. Cavalry sol­ diers stood around a Union flag that waved in the morning breeze, while a Union band played soo... ...ure that went far beyond the confines of the teepee. "I saw you before you were born. I saw your face in the night visions. You are the one chosen t... ... was a hot summer evening, and the air conditioned lobby was a welcome relief. Born and raised in the cool grey ofPuget Sound with its lush green m... ...utomated video equip­ ment hidden behind one-way mirrors, and microphones camou­ flaged in stained-glass Tiffany lamps. When everyone was in their pl...

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...he greeny, cream-coloured, waxy blossoms were heat-killed before they were born, and only a few bad- smelling petals came down when he stood on his hi... ...hey were born, and only a few bad- smelling petals came down when he stood on his hind legs and shook the tree. Then, inch by inch, the untempered hea... ...the hidden pools sank down and caked over, keeping the last least footmark on their edges as if it had been cast in iron; the juicy-stemmed creepers f... ...y direction. Mowgli, who had never known what real hunger meant, fell back on stale honey, three years old, scraped out of de- serted rock-hives—honey... ...bove them, too exhausted to move off. The deer and the pig had tramped all day in search of something better than dried bark and withered leaves. The ... ...ches!” “We wish so, very greatly,” bleated a young fawn, who had only been born that spring, and did not at all like it. Wretched as the Jungle People... ...ept leaves and flowers and grass and fruit and bark.” “I am glad I was not born in those days,” said Bagheera. “Bark is only good to sharpen claws.” “... ...ripe upon his yellow hide. and those stripes do this children wear to this day! When he came to the cave, Fear, the Hair- 15 Rudyard Kipling less One... ...hern Lights would roll across the hollow of the high heavens, flick like a flag, and disappear; or a meteor would crackle from darkness to darkness, t...

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...e; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. Some of these new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the e...

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...he American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warran... ...raries, so that very many statements, references, and citations, were made on the au- thority of my unassisted memory. Under such circumstances were m... ...as to points that would otherwise be open to misconstruction. 1. The paper on “Murder as one of the Fine Arts”* seemed to exact from me some account ... ...lishments, it was interesting to read of the two successive ladies who had borne that title one hundred and sixty years before, and whom no reader of ... ...fled, and most indignant it made her, because the little thing chose to be born at half-past nine P . M.; so that, by the time its *If I remember righ... ...s old acquaintances of my mother’s, both had visited The Farm before I was born; and about General Smith, in particular, there had survived amongst th... ...ad of sixty, being in fact three-score years and none, suddenly struck his flag, and found himself, in his privileged character of Armiger, need- ing ... ...have driven me to an in- stant call for more money—a measure which, as too flagrantly in contradiction to the whole terms on which I had volun- teered... ...remem- ber. “Will they transact with God?” This is the passage; and a most flagrant instance it offers of pure Latinism. Transigere, in the language o...

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...ated, but it was neither speculative nor experimental as to the principles on which it 4 Democracy in America was based. If they were true principles... ... have slumbered in the minds of the people until they were suddenly forced on our attention by unexpected events. In his introductory chapter, M. De T... ...erica,” by Alexis Charles Henri Clerel de T ocqueville, a French nobleman, born at Paris, July 29, 1805. Bred to the law, he exhibited an early predil... ...ly dis- covered the prodigious influence which this primary fact exercises on the whole course of society, by giving a certain direction to public opi... ...n describing made such rapid progress as in France; but it has always been borne on by chance. The heads of the State have never had any forethought f... ...nothing. This might ex- plain the destinies of certain nations, which seem borne on by an unknown force to ends of which they themselves are ignorant.... ...om the sovereign permis- sion to obtain redress, they refused to credit so flagrant an abuse, and were tempted to accuse me of falsehood or of ignoran... ...y the pres- ence of a common danger, witnessed the outrages offered to its flag by the great nations of Europe, whilst it was scarcely able to maintai... ...he com- merce of the world; and as it possesses the keys of the globe, its flags is respected in the most remote seas. The Union is as happy and as fr...

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...nson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of greater importance in Boswell?s day than now. I have kept in mind an old habit, common enough, I dare say, among its devotees, of opening the book of random, and reading wherever the eye falls upon a passage of especial interest. All such passages, I hope, ...

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... of the scholar amid the elegant comfort of Buckingham House. He is intent on his book before the fire. Then the approach of the King, lighted on his ... ... in its kind is the Life of Johnson. Here is the instance of a man who was born into a life stripped of all orna- ment and artificiality. His equipmen... ...anionship with a great and friendly man. The Life of Johnson is not a book on first ac- quaintance to be read through from the first page to the end. ... ...le. I am fully aware of the objections which may be made to the minuteness on some occasions of my detail of Johnson’s conversation, and how happily i... ...e more pleasure does there arise to a benevolent mind. SAMUEL J OHNSON WAS born at Lichfield, in Staffordshire, on the 18th of September, N. S., 1709;... ...ried, and never had more than two children, both sons; Samuel, their first born, who lived to be the illustrious character whose various excellence I ... ...al: 257 Boswell’s Life of Johnson “In Corum atque Eurum solitus saevire flagellis Barbarus, Aeolia nunquam hoc in carcere passos, Ipsum compedibus ... ...ver play on any musical instrument?’ Johnson. ‘No, Sir. I once bought me a flagelet; but I never made out a tune.’ Boswell. ‘A flagelet, Sir!—so small... ...tune, but it has not the same tone. Homer plays it on a bassoon; Pope on a flagelet.’ HARRIS. ‘I think Heroick poetry is best in blank verse; yet it a...

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...now the name of your hatter, or your own, if you happen to have written it on the lining inside? Or, after all, is the measurement of your skull requi... ...s to the cerebral capacity of gamblers? The executive is absolutely silent on this point. But be sure of this, that though you have scarcely taken a s... ...chedness lying in the hospital, the vagrant lives of ruined folk, inquests on num- berless suicides, life-long penal servitude and transportations to ... ...on the glutinous soups at Darcet’s, and gambled away his mea- gre earnings day by day. Like some old hackney which takes no heed of the strokes of the... ...oughts as these, which passed in fragments through his mind, like tattered flags flut- tering above the combat. If he set aside for a moment the burde... ...f delirium! Pas- sionate women’s forms should grace that night! I would be borne away to unknown regions beyond the confines of this world, by the car... ...d by Gravity intoxicated, or by Inebriation grown sober and clear-sighted. Borne away by a kind of tempest, their minds, like the sea raging against t... ...sion that surged tempestuously in my own breast. Oh! to feel that you were born to love, to make some woman’s happiness, and yet to find not one, not ... ...oulders lay around the deep basin, and willows, mountain-ash trees, yellow-flag lil- ies, and numberless aromatic plants bloomed about it, in a realm ...

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...g many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its threads with a more continuous attention than anyone else can have given them during its desultory publication, it is not unreas...

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...ion 24. Fortune-Telling 25. Conspirators and Others 26. Nobody?s State of Mind 27. Five-and-Twenty 28. Nobody?s Disappearance 29. Mrs Flintwinch goes on Dreaming 30. The Word of a Gentleman 31. Spirit 32. More Fortune-Telling...

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...ind 27. Five-and-Twenty 28. Nobody’s Disappearance 29. Mrs Flintwinch goes on Dreaming 30. The Word of a Gentleman 31. Spirit 32. More Fortune-Telling... ... Merdle’s Complaint 34. A Shoal of Barnacles 35. What was behind Mr Pancks on Little Dorrit’s Hand 36. The Marshalsea becomes an Orphan PREFACE TO THE... ... could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unrea- sonable to suppose t... ...it of himself. I pointed to the window of the room where Little Dorrit was born, and where her father lived so long, and asked him what was the name o... ...on de V aud. My mother was French by blood, English by birth. I myself was born in Belgium. I am a citizen of the world.’ His theatrical air, as he st... ...don’t you? Y es. That’s right! And to think of a sweet little cherub being born inside the lock! Now ain’t it pretty, ain’t that something to carry yo... ... sticking to that post was a Barnacle. No intrepid navigator could plant a flag-staff upon any spot of earth, and take possession of it in the British... ...llegians were brightened up as much as circumstances allowed. Two or three flags were even displayed, and the children put on odds and ends of ribbon.... ...d. When people who had nothing to do with the case were so sensible of its flagrancy, people who lost money by it could scarcely be expected to deal m...

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...ion 24. Fortune-Telling 25. Conspirators and Others 26. Nobody?s State of Mind 27. Five-and-Twenty 28. Nobody?s Disappearance 29. Mrs Flintwinch goes on Dreaming 30. The Word of a Gentleman 31. Spirit 32. More Fortune-Telling...

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...ind 27. Five-and-Twenty 28. Nobody’s Disappearance 29. Mrs Flintwinch goes on Dreaming 30. The Word of a Gentleman 31. Spirit 32. More Fortune-Telling... ... Merdle’s Complaint 34. A Shoal of Barnacles 35. What was behind Mr Pancks on Little Dorrit’s Hand 36. The Marshalsea becomes an Orphan PREFACE TO THE... ... could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unrea- sonable to suppose t... ...it of himself. I pointed to the window of the room where Little Dorrit was born, and where her father lived so long, and asked him what was the name o... ... 1 Sun and Shadow THIRTY YEARS AGO, Marseilles lay burning in the sun, one day. A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southe... ...on de V aud. My mother was French by blood, English by birth. I myself was born in Belgium. I am a citizen of the world.’ His theatrical air, as he st... ...don’t you? Y es. That’s right! And to think of a sweet little cherub being born inside the lock! Now ain’t it pretty, ain’t that something to carry yo... ... sticking to that post was a Barnacle. No intrepid navigator could plant a flag-staff upon any spot of earth, and take possession of it in the British... ...llegians were brightened up as much as circumstances allowed. Two or three flags were even displayed, and the children put on odds and ends of ribbon....

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... -- 12. Invaders from the North Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. -- 13. He Unchained Books-The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books and breaks the chains of ignorance that held ...

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...eir Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise... ... of Change After the fall of Rome, Western culture focuses for centuries on guarding rather than expanding accumulated knowledge, but the shift fro... ...lso begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of th... ...at aquatic ape babies‘ long umbilical cords might have allowed them to be born underwater, swim to the surface, and grab on to the mother‘s hair. (H... ...fore the advent of literacy, the distance a man could ride a horse in one day marked the physical limit of a kingdom. A king could impose his will ... ...ndaries formerly limited by the distance a horse could carry a man in one day and gain control over regions large enough to grow into the world‘s fi... ...ode ponies. Temüjin, who would become the legendary Genghis Khan, was born in 1162 and grew up in a violent tribal world of murder, kidnapping, ... ...rs—too valuable to be exposed recklessly—directed the battles with signal flags and horns from atop hills away from the action. Captives with no... ... was no businessman Johann Gensfleisch Zur Laden Zum Gutenberg 15 was born about 1400 in the archbishopric of Mainz, Germany, where his patricia...

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...ity of Washington was chosen with three special views: firstly, that being on the Potomac it might have the full advantage of water-carriage and a sea... ...s we can now see, and as well as we can now judge, Washington will soon be on the borders of the nation to which it belongs, instead of at its center.... ...e in speak- ing of the capital of the Canadas, that no man can ordain that on such a spot shall be built a great and thriving city. No man can so orda... ... the Northern volunteer army, and on entering Alexandria found a secession flag flying at the chief hotel. Instead of sending up a corporal’s guard to... ...t of favor as has been done before 44 North America V ol. 2 by many a new-born baby. If Congress could amuse itself with a few set speeches, and a fi... ... future inconvenience, would be an edict enfranchising all female children born after a certain date, and all their children. Under such an arrangemen... ...ndifference to ap- pearances is there a matter of pride. A foul shirt is a flag of triumph. A craving for soap and water is as the wail of the weak an... ...ll come there, and grow old before their time; and sickly children will be born, struggling up with wan faces to their sad life’s la- bor. But the wor... ...on their way to Washington; and in February, 1862, they were nailing Union flags on the door-posts of those who re- fused to display such banners as s...

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... their own conditions or those of the world at large. They find themselves born into a certain place in soci- ety, and they accept what each day bring... ...emselves born into a certain place in soci- ety, and they accept what each day brings forth, without any effort of thought beyond what the immediate p... ...ent years, and thence to the Syndicalist revolt against Socialist emphasis on the State and political action, and to certain movements outside France ... ... and would not survive more than a year or two at most if it were adopted. On the other hand, both Marxian Socialism and Syndicalism, in spite of many... ...zen: an attitude as true as his, perhaps also as untrue, but equally based on facts, facts concerning his relations to his enemies instead of to his f... ...ssary to know something of the influences which formed his outlook. He was born in 1818 at Treves in the Rhine Provinces, his father being a legal off... ...ury that ten or twelve years before, their labor only lasted eight hours a day. During the last five or six years it had been screwed up to 14, 18, an... ...ticism of these theories will be reserved for Part II.] Michel Bakunin was born in 1814 of a Russian aristocratic family. His father was a diplomatist... ...ught to believe that the General Strike is a mere myth, their energy would flag, and their whole outlook would become disillusioned. It is the actual,...

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... A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the ... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill , the Pennsylvania State ... ........................................................214 4 Considerations on Representative Government Considerations on Representative Government By... ...still when they think fit to adopt it. On the other hand, it is also to be borne in mind that political machinery does not act of itself. As it is fir... .... But what he obeys is only a direct command. It is the characteristic of born slaves to be incapable of conforming their conduct to a rule or law. T... ... there is some hardship in the case, but it is a hardship that ought to be borne. If society has neglected to discharge two solemn obligations, the mo... ...her countries, on condi tions of property, the contradiction is even more flagrant. There something more than ordinarily irrational in the fact that ... ...honest appointment, but even of abstinence from such as are manifestly and flagrantly profligate. It is also absolutely necessary that the examination... ...osed of various nationalities has no other patriotism than devotion to the flag. Such armies have been the executioners of liberty through the whole d...

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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 should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of th...

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...OURED ........................................... 92 CHAPTER XIV: A GOSSIP ON A NOVEL OF DUMAS’S ........................................................ ..................................................... 98 CHAPTER XV: A GOSSIP ON ROMANCE ................................................................... ...OUSE; I ken by the biggin’ o’t.” T wo recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may we... ...s is not the way to be original! It is not; nor is there any way but to be born so. Nor yet, if you are born original, is there anything in this train... ..., having hearkened with lowered tails and raised faces, would run up their flags again to the masthead and spread themselves upon the indicated circui... ...tants. Once – I translate John’s Lallan, for I cannot do it justice, being born Britannis in Montibus, indeed, but alas! Inerudito saeculo – once, in ... ..., when they leave off to speak of parlours and shades of manner and still- born niceties of motive, and begin to deal with fighting, sailoring, advent... ...with humorous or grave intention, and all the while, never hur- rying, nor flagging, nor taking an unfair advantage of the facts. Jack at a given mome... ...ss what should at present so strongly recall it to my memory.” He took his flageolet from his pocket and played a simple melody. Apparently the tune a...

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...r 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 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 Nonadap...

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... 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... ...isis 174 6.2 Post-Crisis Reflection:Agenda for 2000 182 6.3 The Attack on the USS Cole 190 6.4 Change and Continuity 198 6.5 The New Administrat... ...4 Management 353 12. WHAT TO DO? A GLOBAL STRATEGY 361 12.1 Reflecting on a Generational Challenge 361 12.2 Attack Terrorists and Their Organiza... ...d Salem al Hazmi. 11 Hani Hanjour, Khalid al Mihdhar, and Majed Moqed were flagged by CAPPS.The Hazmi brothers were also selected for extra scrutiny b... ... proved costly to Bin Ladin in other ways. Jamal Ahmed al Fadl, a Sudanese-born Arab, had spent time in the United States and had been recruited for t... ...ncern about sabotage and explo- sives on aircraft.The Gore Commission also flagged, as a new danger, the pos- sibility of attack by surface-to-air mis... ...could expect a very long wait for initial clearance.Anyone who was foreign-born or had numerous relatives abroad was well-advised not even to apply.Wi... ...Cohen that the station focus on this one individual. Cohen agreed.Thus was born the Bin Ladin unit. 2 In May 1996, Bin Ladin left Sudan for Afghanista... ...refinement of KSM’s old Manila air plot.The oper- atives would hijack U.S.-flagged commercial planes flying Pacific routes across East Asia and destro...

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....................................................... 12 XIX – TO DR. HAKE (On receiving a Copy of Verses)................................................ ............................................... 31 XLIII – TO S. R. CROCKETT (On receiving a Dedication) ................................................... ...me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me. Or let autumn fall on me Where afield I linger, Silencing the bird on tree, Biting the blue fi... ...han hers encouraged me. I thrilled to feel her influence near, I struck my flag at sight. Her starry silence smote my ear Like sudden drums at night. ... ...rs are bright in the west! Let Beauty awake in the eve from the slumber of day, Awake in the crimson eve! In the day’s dusk end When the shades ascend... ...bble in our path – one star In all our heaven of sky. Our lives, and every day and hour, One symphony appear: One road, one garden – every flower And ... ...zure Softly swam the boat that bore our love. Bright were your eyes as the day; Bright ran the stream, Bright hung the sky above. Days of April, airs ... ...ant of the certain end. XXIV Farewell, fair day and fading light! The clay-born here, with westward sight, Marks the huge sun now downward soar. Farew...

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...ER Royall’s house, at the end of the one street of North Dormer, and stood on the doorstep. It was the beginning of a June afternoon. The springlike t... ...afternoon. The springlike trans- parent sky shed a rain of silver sunshine on the roofs of the village, and on the pastures and larchwoods surrounding... ...archwoods surrounding it. A little wind moved among the round white clouds on the shoul- ders of the hills, driving their shadows across the fields an... ...ny slope below the wood, and the crowding shoots of meadowsweet and yellow flags in the pasture beyond. All this bubbling of sap and slipping of sheat... ...ed reddening on the edge of her desk. But another kind of shyness had been born in her: a terror of exposing to vulgar perils the sacred treasure of h... ...ng up on the Mountain. Then I suppose others joined them—and children were born. Now they say there are over a hundred people up there. They seem to b... ...only living beings in the great hollow of earth and sky. Charity’s spirits flagged and disquieting thoughts stole back on her. Y oung Harney had grown... ... bunting. The ramshackle wooden hotels about the square were all hung with flags and paper lanterns, and as Harney and Charity 62 Summer turned into ... ...or Liff Hyatt, and get him to take her to her mother. She herself had been born as her own baby was going to be born; and whatever her mother’s subse-...

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...BELONGING TO ONE OF THE LIBERAL PROFESSIONS; HOW THEY DISPORTED THEMSELVES ON THE ICE; AND HOW THEIR VISIT CAME TO A CONCLUSION ‘WELL, S AM,’ SAID M ... ...K, as that favoured servitor entered his bed chamber, with his warm water, on the morn ing of Christmas Day, ‘still frosty?’ ‘Water in the wash hand ... ...‘I am glad of it,’ said Mr. Pickwick, casting his nightcap ener getically on the counterpane. ‘They are fine fellows—very fine fellows; with judgment... ...e a dawning recollection of the story he had forgotten. ‘It’s hardly to be borne,’ said the prim man, looking round. ‘Hardly to be borne, is it?’ ‘Not... ...can, with safety, sustain. ‘Well, I never see sitch an old ghost in all my born days,’ exclaimed Sam, rubbing the old gentleman’s back, hard enough to... ..., there was blown into the crescent a sedan chair with Mrs. Dowler inside, borne by one short, fat chairman, and one long, thin one, who had had much ... ...interchange of some lively badinage with any passing stranger. The crimson flag was carefully tied in an erect position to the rail of the dickey; and... ...could be procured on so short a notice, the key bugle sounded, and the red flag waved, without the slightest opposition on Mr. Pickwick’s part. At the... ...igars at which they were puffing most vigorously. The moment they began to flag, the mischievous Mr. Bob Sawyer, addressing Slurk with great politenes...

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...ite volume always opened: “Elliot of Kellynch Hall. “W alter Elliot, born March 1, 1760, married, July 15, 1784, Elizabeth, daughter of James St... ...ounty of Gloucester, by which lady (who died 1800) he has issue Elizabeth, born June 1, 1785; Anne, born August 9, 1787; a still-born son, November 5,... ...1785; Anne, born August 9, 1787; a still-born son, November 5, 1789; Mary, born November 20, 1791.” Precisely such had the paragraph originally stood ... ...percross, in the county of Somerset,” and by inserting most accurately the day of the month on which he had lost his wife. Then followed the history a... ...county of Somerset,” and by inserting most accurately the day of the month on which he had lost his wife. Then followed the history and rise of the an... ...est re- spect and devotion. His good looks and his rank had one fair claim on his at- tachment; since to them he must have owed a wife of very superio... ... to life, and make it no matter of indifference to her when she was called on to quit them. —Three girls, the two eldest sixteen and fourteen, was an ... ...er, of the weather, and Bath, and the concert, their conversation began to flag, and so little was said at last, that she was expecting him to go ever... ...ure of ingratitude and inhumanity; and Anne felt, at some moments, that no flagrant open crime could have been worse. She had a great deal to listen t...

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..................110 THE ADVENTURE OF PRINCE FLORIZEL AND A DETECTIVE ................................................................ 138 THE PAVILION ON THE LINKS............................................................................................... 144 A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT ? A STORY OF FRANCIS VILLON ................................. 196 THE SIRE DE MALETROIT?S...

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............................................................ 138 THE PAVILION ON THE LINKS.................................................................. ...ough a score of dangerous passes; and they grew in confidence as time went on. One evening in March they were driven by a sharp fall of sleet into an ... ...gabond hospital- ity, and the young man himself eating each rejected tart. On leaving the third saloon the young man counted his store. There were but... ...ther man’s body and immortal spirit? Can such things be possible among men born of women? Oh! infamy of infamies!” He was about to rise in his horror,... ...ny rather doubtful ways. Chief among his foibles stood curiosity. He was a born gossip; and life, and especially those parts of it in which he had no ... ...ous and bloody villain. Already two of our friends, and one of them my own born brother, have perished in the enter- prise. He himself, or I am much d... ...one Failure.” 166 Robert Louis Stevenson It had been, it appeared, a very flagrant case. Thousands of persons were reduced to poverty; and one in par... ...l infallibly perish before the night was out. Meantime the Italian put his flag of truce into his pocket, and disappeared, at a leisurely pace, among ... ...eat seigneur,” thought Villon, as his host, set- ting down the lamp on the flagged pavement of the entry, shot the bolts once more into their places. ...

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..............................112 THREE ?DETECTIVE? ANECDOTES ...................................................................................... 130 ON DUTY WITH INSPECTOR FIELD ..................................................................................... 139...

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......................................................................... 130 ON DUTY WITH INSPECTOR FIELD ................................................. ... never have been shipwrecked, ice environed, tomahawked, or eaten. Sitting on my ruddy hearth in the twilight of New Year’s Eve, I find incidents of t... ...his disaffected crew, looks over the waste of waters from his high station on the poop of his ship, and sees the first uncertain glimmer of the light,... ... the star too, because of his sister’s angel gone before. There was a baby born to be a brother to the child; and while he was so little that he never... ...king glasses and carrying on his shoulder a crimson temple fluttering with flags, like a glorified pavior’s rammer without the handle, who rings a lit... ...e orches tra, that seems itself to dance, there is such an airy motion of flags and streamers all about it. And we do not suppose that between the T ... ...ming and trumpeting of course go on for ever in our French watering place. Flag flying is at a premium, too; but, we cheerfully avow that we consider ... ...wonder that he cries? Was Augustus George intended to have limbs, or to be born a Torso? I presume that limbs were the intention, as they are the usua... ... and do it to the best of my power, hoping defects will find excuse. I was born nigh London, but have worked in a shop at Birmingham (what you would c...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. -- Start in Life I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived...

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...iel Defoe Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe CHAPTER I – START IN LIFE I was born in the year 1632, in the city of Y ork, of a good family, though not o... ...h a life of ease and pleasure. He told me it was men of desperate fortunes on one hand, or of aspiring, superior for- tunes on the other, who went abr... ...ed; that kings have frequently lamented the miserable consequence of being born to great things, and wished they had been placed in the middle of the ... ...y or mind, as those were who, by vicious living, luxury, and extravagances on the one hand, or by hard labour, want of necessaries, and mean or insuff... ...and, or by hard labour, want of necessaries, and mean or insufficient diet on the other hand, bring distemper upon themselves by the natural consequen... ...ipi- tate myself into miseries which nature, and the station of life I was born in, seemed to have provided against; that I was under no necessity of ... ...es, in the form of rafters, lean- ing against the rock, and load them with flags and large leaves of trees, like a thatch. 65 Daniel Defoe DECEMBER 1... ...n, who lay upon the beach of the sea with his hands and his feet tied with flags, or things like rushes, and that he was an European, and had clothes ... ...dead. While my man Friday fired at them, I pulled out my knife and cut the flags that bound the poor victim; and loosing his hands and feet, I lifted ...

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... 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroes of highwaymen and burglars, and created a false sympathy for the vicious and criminal....

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...on of ill-will towards the 5 Thackeray eighth commandment; though it may, on the one hand, be as- serted that only vain coxcombs would dare to write ... ...rite on sub- jects already described by men really and deservedly eminent; on the other hand, that these subjects have been described so fully, that n... ...ts have been described so fully, that nothing more can be said about them; on the third hand (allowing, for the sake of argument, three hands to one f... ...most as much soldiering and recruiting, parading, pike and gun-exercising, flag-flying, drum-beating, powder-blaz- ing, and military enthusiasm, as we... ... In truth, it was almost a pity that worthy Brock had not been a gentleman born; in which case, doubtless, he would have lived and died as became his ... ...e, “from taking hold of you, as a surety for him?” “You wouldn’t fire on a flag of truce, would ye, you dishonourable ould civilian?” replied Mr. Macs... ...ety, and soon let them know the con- tempt he felt for them. After a third flagon of ale, he discov- ered that the liquor was sour, and emptied, with ... ...anything else, however your lot was cast; and blessed it was that you were born among the prigs,—for had you been of any other profession, alas! alas!... ... said he. “No, nor nobody else’s,” said Tom. Mr. Hayes only muttered “Base-born brat!” “His father was a gentleman,—that’s more than you ever were!” s...

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...in the Publication. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, &c. I Was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho’ not of t... ...Life of Ease and Pleasure. He told me it was for Men of desperate Fortunes on one Hand, or of aspiring, superior Fortunes on the other, who went abroa... ...d, that Kings have frequently lamented the miserable Consequences of being born to great things, and wish’d they had been placed in the Middle of the ... ...y or Mind, as those were who, by vicious Living, Luxury and Extravagancies on one Hand, or by hard labour, Want of Nec essaries, and mean or insuffici... ...nd, or by hard labour, Want of Nec essaries, and mean or insufficient Diet on the other hand, bring Distempers upon themselves by the natural Conseque... ...ecipitate my self into Miseries which Nature and the Station of Life I was born in, seem’d to have provided against; that I was under no Necessity of ... ...oles in the Form of Rafters lean ing against the Rock, and load them with Flaggs and large Leaves of Trees like a Thatch. December 10th, I began now ... ...USOE lay upon the Beach of the Sea, with his Hands and his Feet ty’d, with Flags, or Things like Rushes; and that he was an European, and had Cloaths ... ...dead. While my Man Friday fir’d at them, I pull’d out my Knife, and cut the Flags that bound the poor Victim, and loosing his Hands, and Feet, I lifted...

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... lines, and the commandant of the city appointed, military administration began. The place assumed a mongrel aspect. Though all things were organized on a French system, the Spaniards were left free to follow ?in petto? their national tastes....

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...egan. The place assumed a mongrel aspect. Though all things were organized on a French system, the Spaniards were left free to follow “in petto” their... ...olonial battalions are to France. Its perma- nent cantonments, established on the island of Elba, served as an honorable place of exile for the troubl... ...ecompense, the favor of being the first to mount the breach at the assault on Tarragona. The marechal granted the request and then forgot his promise;... ...orced him to remember Bianchi. The enraged hero was the first to plant our flag on the wall, where he was shot by a monk. This historical digression w... ...ontefiore had one friend in the person of the quartermaster, —a Provencal, born in the neighborhood of Nice, whose name was Diard. A friend, whether a... ... he accompanied him on a series of rambles about the streets. But the next day, the Italian had obtained his military billet in the house of the drape... ...d not only did the captain see no trace of the young girl during the first day he spent under the roof of the honest Spaniard, but he heard no sound a... ...ation. How could she love Diard, she, a young girl all grace and elegance, born with an invincible instinct for luxury and good taste, her very nature... ... a single evening, where the new-comer who aspires to honor among them was born and brought up, and what that interloper has done, or has not done, in...

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...Introduction: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he ...

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...LLIER & SON COMPANY, NEW YORK (1909) INTRODUCTORY NOTE Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on Janu ary 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Fra... ... (1909) INTRODUCTORY NOTE Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on Janu ary 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chan dle... ...delphia by a merchant named Denman, who gave him a position in his business. On Denman’s death he returned to his former trade, and shortly set up a p... ...his electrical researches, which, with other scientific inquiries, he called on in the intervals of money making and politics to the end of his life. ... ...er inducements. Having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in t... ...f the youngest son for five generations back. My grandfather Thomas, who was born in 1598, lived at Ecton till he grew too old to follow business long... ...en Lord Halifax. He died in 17O2, January 6, old style, just four years to a day before I was born. The account we received of his life and character ... ...nary, from its similarity to what you knew of mine. “Had he died on the same day,” you said, “one might have supposed a transmigration.” John was bred... ...he subscriptions afterwards were more free and gener ous; but, beginning to flag, I saw they would be insufficient without some assistance from the A...

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...versal history and criticism. Now, it is one thing to write with enjoyment on a subject while the story is hot in your mind from recent reading, colou... ... to condense in a few pages the events of a whole lifetime, and the effect on his own mind of many various volumes, is bound, above all things, to mak... ... Pepys, he must nearly break his sitter’s neck to get the proper shad- ows on the portrait. It is from one side only that he has time to represent his... ...an book. With the best intentions in the world, I have only added two more flagstones, ponderous like their prede- cessors, to the mass of obstruction... ...his episode at once) behaved well to Burns from first to last. Were heaven-born genius to revisit us in similar guise, I am not venturing too far when... ... still uncer- tain whether it were a charge of cavalry or a slow and stub- born advance of foot. There could be no such ambiguity in Burns; his work i... ...Whitman. The whole of Whitman’s work is deliberate and preconceived. A man born into a society comparatively new, full of conflicting elements and int... ... highly of our sublunary tapers. The universe is so large that imagination flags in the effort to conceive it; but here, in the meantime, is the world... ...ap- pointed, and the whole book will be no more to you than a particularly flagrant production by the Poet Close. A writer of this uncertain quality w...

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...st-rate Powers who are also free nations would take to tearing each other in pieces, both the one and the other in a bad and odious cause. For while, on the American side, the war would have been one of reckless persistency in wrong, on ours it would have been a war in alliance with, and, to practical purposes, in defence and propagation of, slavery. We had, indeed, been w...

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...n pieces, both the one and the other in a bad and odious cause. For while, on the American side, the war would have been one of reckless persistency i... ...erican side, the war would have been one of reckless persistency in wrong, on ours it would have been a war in alliance with, and, to practical purpos... ...ve own ers, who have broken their connection with the American Federation on the sole ground, ostentatiously proclaimed, that they thought an attempt... ...t for the evil’s sake, but because some body had offered an insult to her flag? Or even if unforgotten, who would then have felt that such a grievanc... ... over others; which has no moral repugnance to the thought of human beings born to the penal servitude for life, to which for the term of a few years ... ...ration from Virginia brought the matter to a close. Yet the tariff of that day was rigidly protective. Compared with that, the one in force at the tim... ...now, as we may know if we please, that this amounts to the same thing. The day when slavery can no longer extend itself, is the day of its doom. The s...