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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...com http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After... ...ml Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United S... ...es dispensable, their systems of governance and economies inherently inferior. The white man's burden must not be encumbered by the vagaries of pri... ...ast decade alone) is in avowed opposition to crucial pillars of the international order. Naturally, America's enemies and critics are envious of i... ...ad to invade Panama to depose the latter and to molest Iraq for the second time in order to force the removal of the former. The Kosovo Liberation ... ...thinking, truncated attention span, soundbite mentality, and dangerous, "black and white", simplism. In its heartland, America is isolationist. Its... ... often give merely in order to control, manipulate, and sadistically humiliate the recipients. Read the article To Give with Grace Narcissism is fr...

The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................................... ...—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING ............... 24 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES ......................... 28 SELF-CENTERED A... ...tic principles. If it is a more totalitarian system we may appreciate the order that it gives. We seldom stray from our traditions. People are gener... ...hip positions.‖ -- ―Well gentlemen, here comes our lunch. The president ordered it. Just a twenty- seven course snack while we talk.‖ ... ... remember when we read Through the Looking Glass in the eighth grade? The White Queen said to Alice ‗believing in impossible things is simply a matte... ...al Security and medical expenses that were only partially paid for by the recipients. ―Social Security took in fewer dollars than it spent in... ... by legal and illegal immigrants ―Older adults are the more common recipients. This is because many children of aliens are born in the U.S. s...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...re of the Internet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale Uni... ...ternet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Pres... ... & London A Caravan book. For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of ... ...s.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of an open competition at www.worth1000.com. Copyright © 2008 by Jonathan... ... than selling, controlling the ongoing computing processes of his clients in order to ensure a desirable out- come. It worked. His clients did not wan... ...g between discrete tasks, and it reduces the skill set a programmer needs in order to write new soft- ware. 13 It also lays the groundwork for the eas... ...ns that emerged from the PC’s uncertain beginnings provided a reason for the white-collar worker to be assigned a PC, and for an ever broader swath of... ...ad recorded attempts to send 229,468 distinct messages to 3,360,181 would-be recipients. 58 (The re- searcher’s computer pretended to deliver on the s... ...tion from senders and routing certain attributes of this informa- tion on to recipients). 5. See, e.g., Granma’s Rules of POLA, http://www.skyhunter.c...

...This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity?and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book7 Our Visit to Indus ... ... - “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia — 1 BOOK 7 OUR VISIT TO INDUS by Lemuel Gulli... .............................................................. 3 RECOGNIZING THE WORLD’S PROBLEMS ......................................................... ...CTION ................................................................ 38 THE HINDU RELIGION AND POPULATION CONTROL .................................... ... the World Bank has proposed penalties against countries that disobey the order, if it is passed. ―A politician in a democratic country who tr... ... practice? Should we encourage exclusive male and female homosexuality, in order to reduce population, but outlaw bisexual behavior that may spread t... ... men vote for their own sex merely because of sameness, or when blacks or whites vote only for their skin color, you deserve what you get. Leadershi... ...es showing that ‗I am different from you.‘ Yellow skins are suspicious of white skins, and white skins are wary of black skins. Every difference is ... ... ―With all these rights we might assume that we would have some duties as recipients of these rights. We have the duty to be educated because of the...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...l Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...UR REASONS FOR DOING ........................................................................................................... 10 FREUD--AND THE NE... ...REUD--AND THE NEED FOR PLEASURE ........................................................................................................... 12 The Po... ...then showed his rats how to trip a switch and get an electric ‗high.‘ Then he set up an electrified grid that the animals had to run across in order ... ...r in a boxing ring I wouldn‘t know. The closest I came to violence in my psychology classes was in dissecting a flatworm or nearly drowning a white ... ...d a couple of dozen male students for a two week study. He assigned some to be prisoners and others to be guards. The guards were told to keep order ... ...c ideals in the Mid-East. They have prompted the arms race and caused untold misery for the common citizens— those who were supposed to be the recipi... ...the infidels in New York and Washington, to kill people who hadn‘t harmed him, and to kill George W, Bush by flying a suicide mission into the White ...

...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 C...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 6 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 6 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...olumes V olume 6 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publicat... ...Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...tings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ... with you; but while co-operating with General McClellan you will obey his orders, except that you are to judge, and are not to allow your force to be... ..., I suggested that it is dangerous to direct a subordinate not to obey the orders of his superior in any case, and that to give instructions to Genera... ...NERAL J. W . GEARY . WAR DEPARTMENT, May 25, 1862 1.45 P.M. GENERAL GEARY, White Plains: Please give us your best present impression as to the number ... ...SHINGTON, D.C., June 28,1862. GENERAL DIX: Communication with McClellan by White House is cut off. Strain every nerve to open communication with him b... ...edful end of our national reformation as a whole people? W e have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, thes...

...Excerpt: The third section of the ?Act further to promote the efficiency of the Navy,? approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have th...

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In the South Seas

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stev... ... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevens... ... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free ... ...ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or... ...f the hills, and one of these surrounded with what seemed a garden. These conspicuous habitations, that patch of culture, had we but known it, were a ... ... It was longer ere we spied the native village, standing (in the universal fashion) close upon a curve of beach, close under a grove of palms; the sea... ... in English that the crew of the Janet Nicoll, a set of black boys from different Melanesian islands, com- municated with other natives throughout the... ...ry change as an affair of weight. I take the average missionary; I am sure I do him no more than justice when I suppose that he would hesitate to bomb... ...e give them usu- ally without affection, and almost never with a genuine desire to please; and our gift is rather a mark of our own status than a meas...

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The Silverado Squatters

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis ... ... The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Ste... ... The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished f... ...Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at hi... ...s the corn-lands and thick tule swamps of Sacramento Valley, to where the Central Pacific railroad begins to climb the sides of the Sierras; and north... ... labourers, and partly ruinous. At dinner 5 there was the ordinary display of what is called in the west a two-bit house: the ... ...ps and hill- tops, and far and near on wild and varied country. The place still stood as on the day it was deserted: a line of iron rails with a bifur... ...ess was to be careless. The 33 fine, good humour of all three seemed to declare they had attained their end. Yet there was the... ... if the flood were beginning to subside. The old landmarks, by whose disappearance I had measured its advance, here a crag, there a brave pine tree, n...

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The Count of Monte Cristo Voulume One

By: Alexandre Dumas

...ne by Alexandre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Count of Monte Cristo Volume One by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of... ...andre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Count of Monte Cristo Volume One by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Penns... ...he Count of Monte Cristo Volume One by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...sail clewlines and buntlines. The young sailor gave a look to see that his orders were promptly and accurately obeyed, and then turned again to the ow... ... “Stand by there to lower the topsails and jib; brail up the spanker!” The order was executed as promptly as it would have been on board a man-of-war.... ... he, with a broad Marseillaise accent, and a grin that displayed his ivory-white teeth. “Yes, as you see, neighbor Caderousse; and ready to be agreeab... ...eaf color peculiar to the buildings of the country, and within coated with whitewash, like a Spanish posada. A young and beautiful girl, with hair as ... ... an entirely new fishing-boat, with two seines and a tender. The delighted recipients of these munificent gifts would gladly have poured out their tha...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Marseilles -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If...

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By: Mark Twain

...e in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...n King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...le, 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 anyo... ...oblem clear out of my mind till its ap pointed day and hour should come, in order that I might turn all my attention to the circumstances of the pres... ...ng colors, in the other. The floor was of big stone flags laid in black and white squares, rather battered by age and use, and needing repair. As to ... ...ing, intellectual fortitude, reasoning; it is mere animal training; they are white Indians.” CHAPTER III. KNIGHTS OF THE TABLE ROUND MAINLY THE R OUN... ...knights in a three hours’ battle, and taken me prisoner, sparing my life in order that so strange a curiosity as I was might be exhibited to the won... ...t for several sauces of ice cream a quality calculated to make the ey of the recipients humid with gratitude; and it done it. When this administratio...

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Cousin Betty

By: Honoré de Balzac

...on Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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 any- o... ...concierges of Paris have sharp eyes; they do not stop visitors who wear an order, have a blue uniform, and walk ponderously; in short, they know a ric... ... “Very well,” replied she; “depend on me.” “And here am I, madame, at your orders,” said the citizen- captain, bowing again to Madame Hulot. He gave s... ...e carpet, the very rags of wealth which made the large room, with its red, white, and gold, look like a corpse of Imperial festivities. “Monsieur, vir... ...ed. Nor did a single freckle mar her skin, such as those with which many a white and golden maid pays toll for her milky whiteness. Tall, round withou... ... betters in secret 34 Cousin Betty transactions, and they thus become the recipients of our in- most thoughts, and look on at our meditations; Richel...

...Excerpt: It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representative of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedicate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commenta...

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Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

By: Dr. Martin Luther

...Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther (1535) Translated by Theodore Graebner A Pen... ...raebner A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther, trans. Theodore Graebner is ... ... the Galatians by Martin Luther, trans. Theodore Graebner is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pur- pose, and in... ...handicaps of an archaic style, had to be condensed into half its volume in order to accomplish the “streamlining” of the book. Whatever merit the tran... ...r his private person, so the minister of Christ should exalt his office in order to gain authority among men. This is not vain glory, but needful glor... ...revent men from accept- ing the Gospel of the righteousness of Christ. The white devil of spiritual sin is far more dangerous than the black devil of ... ...ves. So the devil masquerades all his devices and ac- tivities. He puts on white to make himself look like an angel of light. He is astoundingly cleve... ...at we are nothing. We must understand that we are merely beneficiaries and recipients of the treasures of Christ. So far, the words of Paul were addre...

...Preface: The preparation of this edition of Luther?s Commentary on Galatians was first suggested to me by Mr. P. J. Zondervan, of the firm of publishers, in March, 1937. The consultation had the twofold merit of definiteness and brevi...

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Barchester Towers

By: Anthony Trollope

...Series Publication Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ies Publication Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...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... ...ordship was—’ and Mrs Phillips, with unaffected but easy grief, put up her white apron to her flowing eyes. ‘You cannot but rejoice that it is over, ’... ...s that be should take some steps towards putting it once more into working order. During the past five years the powers that be had not overlooked Bar... ... The bishop, dean, and warden, were, as formerly, to ap- point in turn the recipients of the charity, and the bishop was to appoint the officers. Ther... ...e power he has certainly the wish. His acquirements are not of the highest order, but such as they are they are completely under control, and he knows... ...e of it there. Poor Bunce, poor old Bunce!’ Bunce was one of the surviving recipients of Hiram’s charity; and old man, now over ninety, who had long b...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Who will be the new bishop? In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways--Who was to be the new Bishop? ...

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Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Brontë

...lassics Series Publication Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sics Series Publication Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ...finding it convenient to make external show pass for sterling worth—to let white- washed walls vouch for clean shrines. It may hate him who dares to s... ...ole, and concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold.” Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-compreh... ...ying wide, her gown rustling stormily. “Abbot and Bessie, I believe I gave orders that Jane Eyre should be left in the red-room till I 17 Charlotte B... ...d which plate I had often petitioned to be al- lowed to take in my hand in order to examine it more closely, but had always hitherto been deemed unwor... ...ing, handsome, and lively: but certainly they are all at liberty to be the recipients of whose smiles they please, without my feeling disposed to cons...

...Preface: A preface to the first edition of Jane Eyre being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark. My thanks are due in three quarters. To the Public, for the indulgent ear...

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The Warden

By: Anthony Trollope

...by Anthony T ro llope A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Warden by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...ASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Warden by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ...his nose, show that time has told upon his sight; his hands are delicately white, and both hands and feet are small; he always wears a black frock coa... ...to hover round their sacred hats. A dean or archbishop, in the garb of his order, is sure of our reverence, and a well-got-up bishop fills our very so... ...s great fault is an overbearing assurance of the virtues and claims of his order, and his great foible is an equally strong confi- dence in the dignit... ...e bishop as visitor, praying his lordship to see justice done to the legal recipients of John Hiram’s Charity, and to send cop- ies of this petition a... ... even when asked to do so; and though they looked very nice in their clean white muslin frocks and pink sashes, they were but little noticed by the ar...

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A Theologico-Political Treatise Part 1 Chapters I to V Baruch Spinoza a Theologico-Political Treatise Part 1 Chapters I to V

By: R. H. M. Elwes

...s One through Five by Baruch Spinoza, trans. R.H.M. Elwes is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ne through Five by Baruch Spinoza, trans. R.H.M. Elwes is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylva- nia State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...en revelation to Moses and to the other prophets. Between Christ and other recipients of revelation. Ambiguity of the word “Spirit.” The different sen... ...Such is the chief conclusion I seek to establish in this treatise; but, in order to reach it, I must first point out the mis- conceptions which, like ... ... into slavery. 8 A Theologico-Political Treatise: Part One (22) As to the order of my treatise I will speak presently, but first I will recount the c... ... the Lord was seen by Micah as sitting, by Daniel as an old man clothed in white, by Ezekiel as a fire, that the Holy Spirit appeared to those with Ch... ...le whom the king of Assyria had brought into Judaea were torn in pieces by lions because they knew not the worship of the National Divinity (2 Kings x...

...Contents CHAPTER I ? Of Prophecy Definition of prophecy. Distinction between revelation to Moses and to the other prophets. Between Christ and other recipients of revelation. Ambiguity of the word ?Spirit.? The different senses in which things ma...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ... 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 ... ...omeland 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 App... ... the State Department and the Defense Department 93 3.6 . . . and in the White House 98 3.7 . . . and in the Congress 102 4. RESPONSES TO AL QAE... ...nt dangers. At the outset of our work, we said we were looking backward in order to look forward.We hope that the terrible losses chronicled in this r... ...ed Mace, pepper spray, or some other irritant in the first-class cabin, in order to force the passengers and flight attendants toward the rear of the ... ...s unsustainable.The resulting cutbacks created enor- mous resentment among recipients who had come to see government largesse as their right.This rese... ...rts or through threat advisories. Such advisories, intended to alert their recipients, may address a specific threat or be a general warning. Because ...

...Excerpt: 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, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans an...

...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 O...

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Caesar and Cleopatra

By: George Bernard Shaw

... Publication Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...blication Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ...ation: a palace, and soldiers. The palace, an old, low, Syrian building of whitened mud, is not so ugly as Buckingham Palace; and the officers in the ... ...ause she is descended from the river Nile and a black kitten of the sacred White Cat. What then? PERSIAN. Why, sell her secretly to Ptolemy, and then ... ...y crown and robes. (The slave holds his torch to show the throne.) CAESAR. Order the slave to light the lamps. CLEOPATRA (shyly). Do you think I may? ... ...ils like a naughty child.) Who is this you have with you; and how dare you order the lamps to be lighted without my permission? (Cleopatra is dumb wit... ..., and all convinced that they are heirs of all the ages and the privileged recipients of the truth (all others dam- nable heresies), just as you have ...

...Excerpt: ACT I. An October night on the Syrian border of Egypt towards the end of the XXXIII Dynasty, in the year 706 by Roman computation, afterwards reckoned by Christian computation as 48 B.C. A great radiance of silver fire, the dawn of a moonlit night, is ...

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Considerations on Representative Government

By: John Stuart Mill

...ations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ons on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ...est; and, hav ing done so, to stir them up to insist on having it, is the order of ideas in the minds of those who adopt this view of political philo... ...feudal: because the machinery of authority was not perfect enough to carry orders into effect at a great dis tance from the person of the ruler. He d... ...ed by impartial regard for the interest of all. Suppose the majority to be whites, the minority negroes, or vice versâ : is it likely that the majori... ... all, except that (it is to be hoped) progressively diminishing class, the recipients of parish relief, would be in possession of votes, so that the s... ...ions have imprinted strongly on the American mind that any one man (with a white skin) is as good as any other; and it is felt that this false creed i...

...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and mos...

....................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter I To What Extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice ............................................................. 5 Chapter II The Criterion of a Good Form of Government .........................................................................

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Speeches: Literary and Social

By: Charles Dickens

...n ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ...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... ... I have seen in the factories and work shops of Birmingham such beautiful order and regularity, and such great consideration for the workpeople provi... ...tional; educational of the feelings as well as of the reason; to which all orders of Birmingham men contribute; in which all orders of Birming ham me... ...lity during the past year, the cost of distributing 1,126 pounds among the recipients of the bounty of the Charity amounted to little more than 100 po... ...lable farthing of the funds will be distributed among proper and deserving recipients. Claiming, on my part, to be related in some degree to the profe... ...me little lapse he had made—in short, without having set down in black and white some unquestionable indication that he had been closely followed thro...

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEA... ...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY... ...M MAKEPEACE THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty ... ...THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, ... ... eyes, overhung by eye- brows which remained black long after his hair was white. His nose was aquiline, his smile extraordinary sweet. How well I rem... ...her nor my mother ever wore powder in their hair; both their heads were as white as silver, as I can remem- ber them. My dear mother possessed to the ... ... the family, noble and severe-looking, with his hand on his sword, and his order on his cloak, which he had from the Emperor during the war on the Dan... ...army, who afterwards joined the Usurper’s Government; and Francis, in holy orders, who was slain whilst defending the House of Castlewood against the ... ...efore him; and he is his father’s lawful son and true heir, and we are the recipients of his bounty, and he the chief of a house that’s as old as your...

...Excerpt: The writer of a book which copies the manners and language of Queen Anne?s time, must not omit the Dedication to the Patron; and I ask leave to inscribe this volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and fri...

...CE. ........................................................................................................................................ 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND ...

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Cousin Pons

By: Honoré de Balzac

...n Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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 any- o... ..., spare man, wore a nut-brown spencer over a coat of uncertain green, with white metal buttons. A man in a spencer in the year 1844! it was as if Napo... ...e socks clean. The rusty tinge of his black breeches, like the cut and the white or shiny line of the creases, assigned the date of the purchase some ... ...have even gone so far as to look about them for social evils in 13 Balzac order to start a society to cure them. But to return to Pons. A stomach thu... ...d. On old Dresden china there are two crossed swords and the number of the order in gilt figures. Vincennes bears a hunting-horn; Vienna, a V closed a... ...ations between the Cibots and the Remonencqs were those of benefactors and recipients. Mme. Cibot, con- vinced that the Auvergnats were wretchedly poo...

...Excerpt: Towards three o?clock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italians with his head bent down, as if he ...

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Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens

...sics Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...s Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ...ome universal there. Strangers were stared out of coun- tenance by staring white houses, staring white walls, staring white streets, staring tracts of... ...keep out the stare. Grant it but a chink or keyhole, and it shot in like a white-hot arrow. The churches were the freest from it. To come out of the t... ... ‘Put the bottle by with the rest,’ said Rigaud. The little man obeyed his orders, and stood ready to give him a lighted match; for he was now rolling... ... them in the lower air, as men may feebly imitate the goodness of a better order of be- ings; the long dusty roads and the interminable plains were in... ...ghty passages, waiting for answers to letters in faded ink, which gave the recipients of those manuscripts great mental disturbance and no satisfac- t...

...Excerpt: Preface to the 1857 edition. I have been occupied with this story, during 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 r...

...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Moth...

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Little Dorrit Book One Poverty

By: Charles Dickens

...tion Little Dorrit, Book One: Poverty by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...n Little Dorrit, Book One: Poverty by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ...ome universal there. Strangers were stared out of coun- tenance by staring white houses, staring white walls, staring white streets, staring tracts of... ...keep out the stare. Grant it but a chink or keyhole, and it shot in like a white-hot arrow. The churches were the freest from it. To come out of the t... ... ‘Put the bottle by with the rest,’ said Rigaud. The little man obeyed his orders, and stood ready to give him a lighted match; for he was now rolling... ... them in the lower air, as men may feebly imitate the goodness of a better order of be- ings; the long dusty roads and the interminable plains were in... ...ghty passages, waiting for answers to letters in faded ink, which gave the recipients of those manuscripts great mental disturbance and no satisfac- t...

...Excerpt: Preface to the 1857 edition. I have been occupied with this story, during 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 r...

...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Moth...

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