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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very...

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...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, an... ...onsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects them from the wickedness of the universities. But it secretes friendly girls, yo... ...- ness of her body when they saw her in sheer negligee, or darting out wet from a shower-bath. She seemed then but half as large as they had supposed;... ... straight golden frock, her arm arched to the bow, her lips serious. Every man fell in love then with religion and Carol. Throughout Senior year she a... ...yed being aloof. A classmate named Stewart Snyder, a competent bulky young man in a gray flannel shirt, a rusty black bow tie, and the green-and-purpl... ...he was completing the roof of a half-timbered town hall. She had found one man in the prairie village who did not appreciate her picture of wind- ing ...

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...John Wesley Powell was a pioneer American explorer, ethnologist, and geologist in the 19th Century. In 1869 he set out to explore the Colorado and the Grand Canyon. He gathered nine men, four boats and food for ten months and set out from Green River, Wyoming, on May 24. Passing through dangerous rapids, t...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of ...

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...Excerpt: Dear Speed, yours of the 9th instant is duly received, which I do not meet as a ?bore,? but as a most welcome visitor. I will answer the business part of it first. In relation to our Congress matter here, you were right in supposing I would suppo...

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...olumes V olume 2 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Two is a publicat... ...tings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...upposing I would support the nominee. Neither Baker nor I, however, is the man, but Hardin, so far as I can judge from present appearances. We shall h... ...either Baker nor I, however, is the man, but Hardin, so far as I can judge from present appearances. We shall have no split or trouble about the matte... ...ey and property. They live in Boonville, Missouri, and have not been heard from lately enough for 4 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two me to s... ...Campbell of Spring Creek—(Berlin P .O.). He has received several documents from you, and he says they are old newspapers and documents, having no sort... ...t is generally called an abolitionist, or, as you call yourself, a Liberty man, though I well knew there were many such in your country. I was glad to... ...remember you wrote me that he would be neutral. Nathan also said that some man, whom he could not remember, had said lately that Menard County was goi...

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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 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...

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... 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 C... ...Improvising 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 ... ...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) ... ...newal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 7... ... We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, ... ...ommissioners—five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation’s capital at a time of great partisan division—have come to... ...33 Sweeney calmly reported on her line that the plane had been hijacked; a man in first class had his throat slashed; two flight attendants had been s... ...successfully try- ing to contact it. 44 At 8:52, in Easton, Connecticut, a man named Lee Hanson received a phone call from his son Peter, a passenger ... ...sts who hijacked three other commercial flights on 9/11 oper- ated in five-man teams.They initiated their cockpit takeover within 30 min- utes of take...

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...Excerpt: Welcome to the fifth volume of Best of Four. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we have enjoyed bringing it to you. The purpose of Best of Four is to bring the best writing produced in English 004 each fall semester to the widest a...

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...l Ann Ellis Student Editor Patty Haggerty Best of Four is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. The Pennsylvania State University is an ... ... opportunity university. Best of Four: Student Voices is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. All the student essays contained herein... ...ntained herein were produced by students registered in English 004, within the Commonwealth College of the Pennsylvania University, during the fall se... ... campuses within the Commonwealth College that we were open to submissions from their students as well. This edition marks the first in which the Best... ...has become a Commonwealth College publication with the inclusion of essays from students at the Scranton- Worthington campus. We hope that the sixth e... ...on- Worthington campus. We hope that the sixth edition will include essays from all twelve of the College’s campuses so that the publication will reac... ...usly walks into the bustling Wilkes Barre Scranton airport. He is an older man who has trouble breathing because of the emphysema that is slowly takin... ... now, every damn song the Beatles ever wrote had been about love. ‘Nowhere Man’ broke them out of that.” Lennon and McCartney wrote the majority of th... ...song “Norwegian Wood” and the Beatles’ first song not about love, “Nowhere Man.” Binning also reviewed the Beatles’ next release, Abby Road. He says, ...