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Reed said he could maybe find out where it came from back at his office. Check the certified mail records.
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exchanges take
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Solzhenitsyn.
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He was no longer, at least in his mind, the most wanted man in America. He was an analyst, a seer, a prognosticator going over his reams of data, moving their pieces, twisting them, testing them, discounting some, fleshing out others, slowly transforming disjointed intelligence into something that made sense.
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was certain
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worktable
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For the loss of Chung-Cha. And she was scared. "Hey, guys, come on in," said Julie warmly. Her guardian, Jerome Cassidy, had recovered from his injuries at the hands of"
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the laundry, and took, in amicable
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crow flies. That's where they met.
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He filled a bowl with cereal that looked like twigs a squirrel had pooped out.
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Fortune
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over, Brennan stared at them, his face
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side. Diaz the right. They were prepared for a war. They did not find one. They did not find anyone at all. The warehouse was empty. The makeshift prison cells held no one. They searched the space in ten minutes and then regrouped in the center of it. Puller said, "They move fast, I'll give them that." "But where have they gone?" asked Carson. "We can get APBs out. They have to be using trucks"
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And when they were elected, they arrived in Washington with absolutely no idea what to do. Their only goal had already been achieved: They had won their campaign. However,
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folderol of attention was to die on a football
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legends didn't die. They just... were there. Always. His voice dry and scratchy, he said, "Heard what, sir? I just got back in town from Fort Sill. Is it my father?" "No, it's your brother," said White. "My brother?" His brother was in the most secure military prison in the country. Now Puller's mind turned to other possibilities involving his sibling. "Has he been injured?" Puller didn't know how that could be. There were no riots at the D..
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People are going to eat you alive over this article. And the witch even included the fact of where you're currently living." "I have an ace in the hole." "What's that?" she said curiously. "I don't give a shit."
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box. I'm sure of that.
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posting will be at the unemployment office." "I don't think" --
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not talking about driving a Paladin.
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In the military, snipers were almost always deployed in two-person teams. A spotter added security and firepower, set up and calculated shots, kept on top of elements like wind that could vary shots. When the shooter got tired, which often happened because waiting to kill was an exhausting exercise, the team would switch roles and spotter would become sniper.
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Heard you killed 'em later on. In the woods.
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She wrote the phone number down on another slip of paper, rushed into the bathroom, crumpled up the letter, and flushed it down the toilet. For one paralyzing moment she envisioned federal law enforcement agents hiding somewhere in the White House intercepting her toilet water and reconstructing the letter. But that was impossible. That was the stuff of Orwell's 1984. Yet in some ways, by living at the White House, she had already seen Orwe..
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Life is crazy and maddening and often makes no sense.
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Why do men like you do the job you do? It can't be for the medals. And it's certainly not the money." Stone said nothing. -"Why then? God and country?" -"Both simpler and more complex, Mr. President." -"What then?" -"So I can look at myself in the mirror."
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duty
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He could compartmentalize at an astonishing level. It came from not giving a shit. And
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two unconscious, bleeding men and then over at the girl behind the bar. She was staring at him openmouthed, the glass-rag and beer mug clutched in her
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Los mejores lideres dejan que su gente haga lo que mejor sabe hacer.
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That's why he'd hired Pender, who made the world believe what Creel wanted it to believe. It was often a war of attrition. You made up the truth and then buried the real thing under so much garbage that people grew weary of trying to dig through it and instead just accepted what you offered. It was the easy way out and humans were programmed to always go that way. After all, there were bills to pay, shopping to do, kids to raise, and sports..
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Thus, he and his gun had been sent to do the deed, in the interests of national security, which seemed to be a catchall to justify any death, anywhere, any time.
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BETH READ THROUGH the report on her computer screen three times. This was something her father had taught her. Read through once for general conceptualization and then a second time for the nitty-gritty details. And then read it a final time, at least an hour after the first reading, but do so out of order, which forced your mind and your eyes from their comfort zones.
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For DeHaven it was well worth the extra money to a federal budget that had always allocated more to war than it ever did to peaceful purposes. For a fraction of the cost of one missile he could purchase on the open market every work the library needed to round out its rare books collection. Yet politicians believed that missiles kept you safe, whereas actually books did, and for a simple reason. Ignorance caused wars, and people who read wi..
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war
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I remember my father telling me about England's redrawing of India's boundaries when it became independent. They wanted to separate the Hindu from the Muslim, but they used outdated maps. Twelve million people had to relocate because the Brits screwed it up so badly. And a half million people died during the resulting chaos. And before that, Iraq was unilaterally cobbled together, causing many of the conflicts we see today. There are dozens..
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war
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I remember my father telling me about England's redrawing of India's boundaries when it became independent. They wanted to separate the Hindu from the Muslim, but they used outdated maps. Twelve million people had to relocate because the Brits screwed it up so badly. And a half million people died during the resulting chaos. And before that, Iraq was unilaterally cobbled together, causing many of the conflicts we see today. There are dozens..
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war
religion
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The truth always matters,
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lugar,
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He typed in a request and sent
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description?" Frank asked patiently. "I've got sixty-five employees and a turnover"
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That was the problem with an eight-figure gorilla of a client. It took all of your time and attention. Old clients dried up and died away. New clients were not cultivated. His complacency had come back to bite him right in the ass. He
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You?
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since a pen or pencil could easily be turned
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As opposed to what? A country run by old white billionaires and their paid lackeys in Washington?
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Life is what it is, Will. You take it as it comes.
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Males. You have to lead them to the water and then show them how to slurp it.
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