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............................................................ 130 THE WELFARE STATE—CRADLE TO GRAVE BENEFITS ........................................... ... ..................................... 143 WORKING AND RESTING IN THE WELFARE STATE .............................................. 145 POVERTY IS RELATI... ...L DEBTS ............................................................. 163 STATE AND LOCAL BUDGETS ...................................................... ...erican elections are more straight forward. The whole state votes for its senators, but for the House of Representatives the districts can be skewed ... ...o die before a ‗Code Blue‘ situation does them in? ―A court in Massachusetts recently allowed life support to be withdrawn from an 11 year...

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...thy only of the mystic saints, he should have felt exhilarated, consumed in a state of reverie. Instead, his mind reeled in confusion, and his heart... ...w about him first. The second name on the list is Alexander Artemis, a United States Senator. His picture, conveniently enough, was all over the fro... ...at I have always dreamed of, but never imagined possible. To go to the United States is more than a dream come true.” Antonio fell to his knees. “I a... ...Washington, DC, where he got a job working as one of the aides to a prominent Massachusetts Congressman. It didn't take long for the young, handsome... ...with reporters, political analysts, camera people, and a hand full of curious Senators and Congressmen who were shocked at Alex's sudden announcemen... ...hrough life in another's shoes. As Senator, you walk in the footsteps of many senators who have gone before you." Alex nodded, understanding the ob...

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...tive on the larger context, continually understanding things better. It is a state of mind that is in a constant, continual unending state of Learn... .......................................................................... 80 Re-statement ................................................................ .... Cause and Effect can also be defined by Newton’s Third Law of Motion which states: “For every action: there is an equal and opposite reaction.” ... ... respectable for 11,500 years. So apparently, 11,500 years of historians, and senators, and kings and queens, and priests, and leaders, and all the ... ...ion and sticks in their own corrupt, on-the-take politician. Teaching all the senators and congressmen that if you are not corrupt: you will not get... ...ealogy while claiming to be a Republic with no King and no royal bloodlines. Senators sneering at the avarice and corruption of wealthy business men... ...each other’s houses, and stole each other’s properties. Even the Governor of Massachusetts whose wife betrayed the British cause and became a spy f... ...Something American history books carefully delete from the history of 1638 in Massachusetts. Named so because of the infamous massacre which gave th...

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...adin?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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...6 DUTIES—DISCONTENT—SAN PEDRO CHAPTER XV — A FLOGGING—A NIGHT ON SHORE—THE STATE OF THINGS ON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 BOARD—SAN DIEGO . ... ...rength enough to hold on to anything, and it was ‘‘pitch dark.’’ This was my state when I was ordered aloft, for the first time, to reef topsails. ... ... was good for us to be in motion. Yet anything was better than the horrible state of things below. I remember very well going to the hatchway and p... ...ls of Cape Cod, over our larboard quarter, and before us, the wide waters of Massachusetts Bay, with here and there a sail gliding over its smooth sur... ... Here I saw the inaugura- tion of a Governor, Mr. Latham, a young man from Massachusetts, much my junior; and met a member of the State Senate, a ma... ...ter, repaired my father’s house at home some ten years before; and two more Senators from southern California, relics of another age,—Don Andres Pi... ... home in the Pilgrim, and I had the pleasure of helping to get him into the Massachusetts General Hospital. When he had been there about a week, I w...