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...Introduction: 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 lib...

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...Excerpt: The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child?s bed....

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...Excerpt: Part I, Chapter 1; HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys? house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to ...

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...2002 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. First published in English, 1901. First published in Russian, 1877. “Vengeance is mine; ... ...t I Chapter 1 H APPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The ... ...intances. Consequently the distributors of earthly blessings in the shape of places, rents, shares, and such, were all his friends, and could not over... ...Ivan itch Nikitin, Mihail Stanislavitch Grinevitch”—and turning to Levin—“a district councilor, a modern district council man, a gymnast who lifts th... ...brother of the celebrated Koznishev. 18 Anna Karenina “No, I am no longer a district councilor. I have quarreled with them all, and don’t go to the m... ...nd he began wondering where to finish the evening. He passed in review of the places he might go to. “Club? a game of bezique, champagne with Ignatov? ... ...nsisted that one country can only absorb another when it is the more densely populated. Koznishev admitted both points, but with limitations. As they ...

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... a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 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 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. COUNTERTERR...

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...HE 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 Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992... ...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 t... ...ifferent rules of engagement.These fighters, part of the 113th Wing of the District of Columbia Air National Guard, launched out of Andrews Air Force ... ...rnment, always conscious of its duties as the custodian of Islam’s holiest places, joined with wealthy Arabs from the Kingdom and other states borderi... ...bu Zubaydah, who helped operate a popular terrorist training camp near the bor- der with Pakistan.There were also rootless but experienced operatives,... ...ns for recruiting and training fighters for Islamic insur- gencies in such places as Tajikistan, Kashmir, and Chechnya. Pakistani intelli- gence offic... ...ult of the investigations and arrests, the U.S.Attorney for the South- ern District of New York prosecuted and convicted multiple individuals, includi... ...i- ously hampered by outdated technology and insufficient human resources. Bor- der Patrol agents were still using manual typewriters; inspectors at p... ...itary cantonment, away from civilian population centers and overwhelmingly populated by jihadists. Clarke remembered sitting next to T enet in a White...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace – Epilogues One and Two by Leo Tolstoy, the Penns... ...sburg at the time and had no clear idea of Nicholas’ circumstances. Having bor- rowed money from his brother-in-law, Nicholas tried to hide his wretch... ...voices were audible from the next room. At tea all sat in their accustomed places: Nicholas beside the stove at a small table where his tea was handed... ...that makes the actions of a man closely connected with others in a thickly populated district, or of one bound by family, official, or business duties... ... the actions of a man closely connected with others in a thickly populated district, or of one bound by family, official, or business duties, seem cer...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Fait... ...ut Y ork- shire schools when I was a not very robust child, sitting in bye-places near Rochester Castle, with a head full of partridge, strap, T om pi... ...is neighbourhood, the writer would be very much obliged. I went to several places in that part of the country where I understood the schools to be mos... ...that it ought to be rather more for one day than for five, inasmuch as the bor- rower might in the former case be very fairly presumed to be in great ... ...y individual present. He had visited the houses of the poor in the various districts of London, and had found them destitute of the slightest vestige ... ...e and brown skies, and an elegantly written card of terms with an embossed bor- der. Mr Nickleby glanced at these frivolities with great contempt, and... ...ini. ‘Do you wish to break my heart?’ ‘Not for twenty thousand hemispheres populated with— with—with little ballet-dancers,’ replied Mantalini in a po... ...e could find, and, directing the driver to- wards the police-office of the district in which Mr Squeers’s misfortunes had occurred, alighted at a shor...

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...But I say, Kid, isn?t that going it a little too strong? Whiskey and alcohol?s bad enough; but when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll le...

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...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old Men, 117 -- B?atard, 136 -- All Gold Canyon, 153 -- Love of Life...

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.... . . . . . 1 The White Silence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 In a Far Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The W... .... . . 391 The Mexican . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398 Told in the Drooling Ward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428 CONTENTS ii... ... I ’ve seen your face; I like it. And I ’ve seen — why, damn you, hit the high places for salt water and that wife of yours, and” — Here the Kid unmit... ...is movements as the fragile footing swayed and threatened beneath him. In such places death was quick and easy; but it was not his desire to endure no... ...on he knew he would come to where dead spruce and fir, very small and weazened, bor dered the shore of a little lake, the titchin nichilie, in the ton... ...d for, “The Slot.” North of the Slot were the theaters, ho tels, and shopping district, the banks and the staid, respectable busi ness houses. South... ...sian, while the inhabitants of the Solomons are Melanesian. Lord Howe has been populated by the westward Poly nesian drift which continues to this da...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Volume One of THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, con... ...ut Y ork- shire schools when I was a not very robust child, sitting in bye-places near Rochester Castle, with a head full of partridge, strap, T om pi... ...is neighbourhood, the writer would be very much obliged. I went to several places in that part of the country where I understood the schools to be mos... ...that it ought to be rather more for one day than for five, inasmuch as the bor- rower might in the former case be very fairly presumed to be in great ... ...y individual present. He had visited the houses of the poor in the various districts of London, and had found them destitute of the slightest vestige ... ...e and brown skies, and an elegantly written card of terms with an embossed bor- der. Mr Nickleby glanced at these frivolities with great contempt, and... ...ini. ‘Do you wish to break my heart?’ ‘Not for twenty thousand hemispheres populated with— with—with little ballet-dancers,’ replied Mantalini in a po...