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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    12:06 pm
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    should you not receive them and enjoy them as they do?”
    The rumble of why not? and he’s right rippled through the audience, now actually looking at one
    another, eyes locked, and heads nodding firmlyThe Jackal then began to reel off the eight major
    departments in question, and as each was named successively, there was an enthusiastic nodding of
    heads“The ministries of Transport, Information, Finance, Import/Export, Legal Procedures,
    Military Supply, Scientific Research and hardly the least, Presidium AppointmentsThese are
    your domains, but you have been cut out from all final decisionsThat is no longer acceptable—
    changes must be made!”
    The assembled listeners rose almost as one, no longer strangers but, instead, people united in a
    causeThen one, the obviously cautious bureaucrat who had closed the door, spoke“You appear to
    know our situations well, sir, but what can change them?”
    “These,” announced Carlos, gesturing dramatically at the file folders spread out across the low
    tableSlowly the small group sat down, singly and in couples, looking at one another when not
    staring at the folders“On this table are secretly gathered confidential dossiers of your superiors in
    each of the departments represented hereThey contain such injurious information that when
    presented by you individually will guarantee your immediate promotions, and in several cases your
    succession to those high officesYour superiors will have no choice, for these files are daggers
    aimed at their throats—exposure would result in disgrace and execution
    “Sir?” A middle-aged woman in a neat but nondescript plain blue dress cautiously stood upHer
    blond-gray hair was swept back into a stern bun; she touched it briefly, self-consciously, as she
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    383
    spoke“I evaluate personnel files on a daily basis and frequently discover errors how can you
    be certain these dossiers are accurate? For if they are not accurate, we could be placed in extremely
    dangerous situations, is that not so?”
    “That you should even question their accuracy is an affront, madame,” replied the Jackal coldly
    “I am the monseigneur from ParisI have accurately described your individual situations and
    accurately depicted the inferiority of your superiorsFurther, and at great expense and risk to
    myself and my associates here in Moscow, I have covertly funneled monies to you so as to make
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    “Speaking for myself,” interrupted a gaunt man wearing glasses and a brown business suit, “I
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    does one have anything to do with the other? I am with the Ministry of Finance, of course, and
    having admitted that, I absolve myself of complicity for being clear about my status
    “Whatever that means, accountant, you’re about as clear as your paralyzed ministry,” interrupted
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    us
    “As you do constantly with Scientific Research!” exclaimed a short, tweedy professorial
    member of the audience, the irregularity of his clipped beard due, no doubt, to poor vision, despite
    the thick spectacles bridging his
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    "Enough!" Dario cried cheerily, striking fresh
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    one of themDario stood beside the podium, hand
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    12:06 pm
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    "In the building biz, we called that laying it on
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    @@@@@ One by one, gasping, panting angrily, they
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    Croft looked about quickly"Looks like all of us"C'mon, Lootenant, we got to get out of here, they'll be circling around soon
    "Everybody here?" Red shoutedHe had a long abrasion on his cheek, powdered with embedded dirtHis sweat etched through it like tears on a dirty faceThe men were clambering behind the shelter of the rock, shouting angrily and nervously at each other
    "IS THERE ANYBODY THE FUG MISSING?" Gallagher shouted
    "Everybody's here," someone yelled back
    The grove at the other end of the field was silentOnly an occasional shot chirruped over their heads
    "Let's get out of here
    Croft peered over the top of the shelf, searched the field for an instant and saw nothingHe ducked down as a few shots chased after him"Want to go, Lootenant?"
    Hearn was unable to concentrate for a momentHe was still caught in the ferment that had aroused himHe could not quite believe they were back to a temporary safety; all his energies were balkedHe wanted to drive them for another hundred yards and another, bawling out his commands, bellowing his rageIt was impossible for him to t
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    12:14 pm
    @@@@@ Wilson began to giggle weakly"Ah thought
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    Wilson began to giggle weakly"Ah thought that hole in mah belly made me blind He worked his mouth dryly, and in the darkness it sounded like the tense choking murmurs of a woman in grief He seemed to roll on the stretcher"Where the hell am I?"
    "We're takin' you back to the beach, Stanley and Goldstein and Ridges and me
    Wilson digested this slowly"Ah'm out of the patrol, huh?"
    "Yeah, all of us, boy"Ah bet Croft was mad as a goosed beeSonofabitch, they're gonna op-per-rate on me now, an' cut out all that pus, ain't they, Brown?"
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    "Can't hurt ya," Brown lied"Just comes out both ends
    "Ain't that a sonofabitch though, man who's been around's long as me in the platoon gettin' hit in a lousy shit-storm like that He lay back reflecting"Ah wish to hell that hole in mah belly would stop actin' up
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    "Listen, they was Japs after me in that field, jus' a couple of yards away from meThey was talkin', jus' jabberin' away, doky cola kinda it sounded likeBut they was right after me
    He's off again, Brown thought"You feeling cold, boy?"
    At the suggestion, Wilson shuddere
    6:06 am
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    sadnessThe rhythm was too infectious, too merry, and everyone was
    singing now, and clapping their handsScarlett's foot began
    involuntarily to tap the beat under cover of her skirts
    "Come on, Billy," said Daniel, singing it, really, to the tune Billy opened the lid of a window seat and took out a
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    Then he walked up behind Scarlett, reached over her head, and picked
    up
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    Stephen-" He tossed a thin glinting tube to the dark silent man There was another arc of silver through the air"And,
    for you, dear mother-in-law-" His hand dropped something in
    Maureen's
    lapA young boy clapped wildly"The bones! Cousin Maureen's
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    to play the bonesDaniel had stopped playing, and
    with the music gone she felt sad againBut she no longer wanted to
    leaveThis party had nothing to do with the Telfairs' musicale
    There was easiness here, warmth, laughter
    The parlors that had been so neatly arranged before were all
    hodge-podge now, furniture moved, chairs from both rooms crowded
    in a
    straggling half circle around the fireMaureen lifted her hand with a
    clacking noise, and Scarlett saw that the "bones" were really thick
    pieces of smooth woodJamie was still pouring and passing whiskey
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    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
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    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    411
    “Ah’ll explain The strange man whose voice belonged to the old Confederacy had been
    thorough
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    Remember, many of our candidates, and all of the younger ones, are trained in self-defense, but
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    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    12:06 pm
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    their last supply stopFour Russian army grenades were counted out and counter signed by
    Benjamin“Where to?” he asked as the soldier in an American uniform returned to the concrete
    guardhouse
    “These aren’t exactly Ugeneral issue,” said Jason, putting the grenades carefully, one by one,
    into the pockets of his field jacket
    “They’re not for training, eitherThe compounds aren’t military-oriented but basically civilian
    If those are ever used, it’s not for indoctrination purposesWhere do we go now?”
    “Check with headquarters firstSee if anything’s happened at any of the border checkpoints
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    424
    “My beeper would have gone off—”
    “I don’t trust beepers, I like words,” interrupted Jason
    Benjamin did so, switching to the Russian language and using the codes that only senior staff
    were assignedThe terse Soviet reply came over the speaker; the young trainer replaced the
    microphone and turned to Bourne“No activity at all,” he said“Just some intercompound fuel
    deliveries
    “What are they?”
    “Petrol distribution mainlySome compounds have larger tanks than others, so logistics call for
    routine apportionments until the main supplies are shipped downriver
    “They distribute at night?”
    “It’s far better than those trucks clogging up the streets during the dayRemember, everything’s
    scaled down hereAlso, we’ve been driving through the back roads, but there’s a maintenance army
    in the central locations cleaning up stores and offices and restaurants, getting ready for tomorrow’s
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    “Christ, it is DisneylandAll right, head for the ‘Spanish’ border, Pe
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    Elizabeth's eyes blazed in the hanging flesh of
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    "I haven't started another-" Or had I? My memory
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    that I speak the name of my older daughter's
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    "The one where the rowboat is empty?"
    Before I could say anything, Gene Hadlock shoved
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    by Ilse, holding a glass of water
    "Elizabeth, we should go," Hadlock said
    He reached for her armElizabeth swept his hand
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    Someone cried out and some woman, incredibly,
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    "Do you see the rocking horse, Edgar?" She held
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    "That belonged to my sisters, Tessie and LauraThey dragged that damned thing with
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    My father couldn't bear to look at itHe had it
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    Along with the garland, of courseThe one around
    the horse's neck
    729
    Silence except for the tearing rasp of her breath
    Mary Ire staring with big eyes, her obsessive
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    in one hand by her sid
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    Here was a man who had not gone along with the crowd He was a man kelly hermes bag who did his own thinking and detested the words, "We have to do it this way because that's the way everyone else does it He also hated the word "can't If you wanted him to do something, just say, "I don't think
    you can do it
    Mike and I learned more sitting at his meetings than we did in all our years of school, college includedMike's dad was not school educated, but he was financially educated and successful as a purse louis vuitton re
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    12:14 pm
    @@@@@She was now quite certain that in the last
    @@@@@She was now quite certain that in the last five years of their marriage, he had hidden money from herShe was angry at herself for not being more aware of where the money was going, as well as for not knowing about the other woman
    Just like a board game, the world is always providing us with instant feedbackWe could learn a lot if we tuned in moreOne day not long ago, I complained to my wife that the cleaners must have shrunk my pantsMy wife gently smiled and poked me in the stomach to inform me that the pants had not shrunk, something else had expanded me!
    The game CASHFLOW was designed to give every player personal feedbackIts purpose is to give you optionsIf you draw the boat card and it puts you into debt, the question is, "Now what can you do?" How many different financial options can you come up with? That is the purpose of the game: to teach players to think and create new and various financial options
    I have watched this game played by more than 1,000 peopleThe people who get out of the "Rat Race" in the game the quickest are the people who understand numbers and have creative financial mindsThey recognize different financial options People who take the longest are people who are not familiar with numbers and often do not understand the power of investingRich people are often creative and take calculated risks
    There have been people playing CASHFLOW who gain lots of money in the game, but they don't know what to do with itMost of them have not been financially successful in real life eitherEveryone else seems to be getting ahead of them, even though they have moneyAnd that is true in real lifeThere are a lot of people who have a lot of money and do not get ahead financially


    CHAPTER SEVEN
    Lesson Six:Work to Learn - Don't Work for Money

    In 1995,1 granted an interview with a newspaper in SingaporeThe young female reporter was on time, and the interview got under way immediatelyWe sat in the lobby of a luxurious hotel, sipping coffee and discussing the purpose of my visit to SingaporeI was to share the platform with Zig ZiglarHe was speaking on motivation, and I was speaking on "The Secrets of the Rich
    "Someday, I would like to be a best-selling author like you," she saidI had seen some of the articles she had written for the paper, and I was impress
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    Let's give a Cardley for the team, he shouts, running up and down with the chloe black megaphoneThere is the pause, the respectful hush while he extends one arm, swings it over his head, and brings it down
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    And the kids are yelling, watching him as he does a cartwheel, comes up clapping his hands, his body turned toward the playing field in an attitude of devotion, of pleadingOne thousand kids awaiting on him
    One of the dior handbags glory moments that you pull out later
    In the lag between basketball season and baseball, he takes his car apart, installs a muffler (he is tired of the sound of the exhaust) greases the gear housing, and paints the chassis a pale green
    There are important conversations with his father
    We have to be thinking seriously of what you want to do, Willie
    I've kinda set my mind on engineering, gucci fabric PopThey've talked of it many times, but this occasion there's the tacit understanding that it's Serious
    Well, now, I'm glad to hear that, WillieI don't want to say I've ever tried to form your opinion for you, but I couldn't ask for anything better
    I really like machinery
    I've noticed that, Son(The pause) It's aeronautical engineering that interests you?
    I think it's gonna be the field
    It is, tiffany wholesale Son, I think it's a good choiceThat's an up-and-coming businessHis father claps him on the shoulderI want to mention one thing though, WillieI noticed you been getting a little cocky, nothing to speak about, and you keep your manners with us, but it's not a good policy, SonIt's perfectly all right to know that you can do something better'n the next man, but it isn't good sense to let the other man ladies gucci watches kno
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
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    @@@@@He had said it because a part of his mind always considered the objective situation; consciously he had been unaware of the men about him as he talkedHe strode away slowly, drawing the Captain with him
    "Artillery is a bit more impressive at night," he murmuredHis poise was addled slightlyHe would not have said this to a stranger if he were still not absorbed in the impact of firing the howitzer
    "I know what you mean, sirI always get a kick out of firing the battery at night
    Then it was all rightCummings realized he had almost made a slip"Your battery seems in good order, Captain
    But he was not listeningThe General was paying attention to the silent rhapsodic swoop of the shell, was following it in his mind's eyeHow long did it take? Perhaps half a minute? His ears were alerted for the sound of its explosion
    "I never quite get over it, sirIt must be bloody hell at the other end
    Cummings was listening to the dull muted tones of the explosion, miles away in the jungleHe saw in his mind the bright destroying bouquet of flame, the screams and the rent iron singing through the airI wonder if it killed anyone? he thoughtHe realized the tenseness with which he had been waiting for the shell to land by the weak absorptive relief that washed through his bodyAll his senses felt gratified, exhaustedThe war, or rather, war, was odd, he told himself a little inanelyBut he knew what it meantIt was all covered with tedium and routine, regulations and procedure, and yet there was a naked quivering heart to it which involved you deeply when you were thrust into itAll the deep dark urges of man, the sacrifices on the hilltop, and the churning lusts of the night and sleep, weren't all of them contained in the shattering screaming burst of a shell, the man-made thunder and light? He did not think these things coherently, but traces of them, their emotional equivalents, pictures and sensations, moved him into a state of acute sensitivityHe felt cleaned in an acid bath, and all of him, even his fingertips, was prepared to grasp the knowledge behind all
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    it like a line thrown to the drowningShe'd been listening to her
    aunts quarrelling for more than an hour about who was to blame for
    their father's reaction to his birthday"This is about my Atlanta
    property," Scarlett said
    "Please excuse me, I'll take it up to Cartier watch tank my room She didn't wait for
    them to agreeShe locked the door to her roomShe wanted to
    savor
    every word in private"What mess have you made this time?" the
    letter began, without salutationThe old lawyer's handwriting was so
    agitated that it was difficult to readScarlett made a face and held
    it closer to the lampWhat mess have you made this time? on
    Monday I
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    avoid
    He presented me with an astonishing daft drawn on his bank and
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    I did not tell him you were in Savannah rolex daytona cosmograph 371 Scarlett groanedWho
    was
    Uncle Henry calling an old fool when he was such an old fool himself?
    No wonder Rhett hadn't come for herShe peered again at Henry's
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    the time he called on me I didn't know where you wereI have not
    told
    him yet, because I do not know what you're up to, and I have a tiffany replica pretty
    good idea that I want no part of itThis courthouse lawyer had two
    questions from RhettThe first was your whereabouisThe second
    was-do you want a divorce? Now, Scariett, I don't know what you'e
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    don't
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    Friday, December 24th, 2010
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    @@@@@He didn't seek her companionship or her
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    He wanted her to run his house the way he had once run it himselfwhich
    meant in accordance with his standards and subject to his dominance
    He
    needed to find a way to accomplish that, and so he thought about her
    "Tell my granddaughter to come here," he said when Jerome came In
    "She ain't home yet," said the old butler with a smileHe anticipated
    the old man's anger with delightJerome hated ScarlettScarlett was
    at the big City Market with the O'HarasAfter the confrontation with
    her grandfather she had dressed, dismissed Pansy, and escaped
    through
    the garden to hurry, unaccompanied, the two short blocks to Jamie's
    house"I've come to have company going to Mass," she told Maureen,
    but her real reason was to be someplace where people were nice to
    one
    anotherAfter Mass the men went in one direction, the women and
    children in another"They'll have a haircut and a gossip in the
    barber shop at the Pulaski House Hotel," Maureen told Scarlett"And
    most likely a pint or two in the saloonIt's better than a newspaper
    for hearing what's going onWe'll get our own news at the Market
    while I buy some oysters for a nice pie Savannah's City Market had
    the same purpose and the same excitement as the Market in
    Charleston
    Until she was back in the familiar hubbub of bargaining and buying and
    friends greeting friends, Scarlett hadn't realized how much she'd
    missed it when the Season took precedence for women's time
    She wished now that she'd taken Pansy with her after all; she could
    have filled a basket with the exotic fruits that came in through
    Savannah's busy seaport if only she'd had her maid to carry it
    Mary Kate and Helen were doing that chore for the O 'Hara women
    Scarlett let them carry some oranges for herAnd she insisted on
    paying for the coffee and caramel rolls they all had at one of the
    standsStill, she refused when Maureen invited her to come home for
    dinner with themShe hadn't told her grandfather's cook that she
    wouldn't be at the houseAnd she wanted to catch up on the sleep
    she'd missedIt wouldn't do to look like death warmed over if Rhett
    came in on the afternoon tr
    5:58 am
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    @@@@@In another fifteen seconds I’m going to throw Jamie and Mrs
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    “I’m tempted, Attila, but I think Bro’s counting on usTwo feisty individuals and an overimaginative
    disbarred judge are more than an Ontario ranch boy can handle
    The Caribbean sun had disappeared; only faint sprays of orange barely illuminated the western
    horizonThe flames of the glass-encased candles were steady, pointed, sending streams of gray
    smoke through their funnels, their glow producing warm light and comfortable shadows around the
    terraced balcony of Villa EighteenThe conversation, too, had been warm and comfortable—
    survivors relishing their deliverance from a nightmare
    “I emphatically explained to Handy Randy that the doctrine of stare decisis has to be challenged
    if the times have altered the perceptions that existed when the original decisions were rendered,”
    expounded Prefontaine“Change, change—the inevitable result of the calendar
    “That’s so obvious, I can’t imagine anyone debating it,” said Alex
    “Oh, Flood-the-Gates used it incessantly, confusing juries with his erudition and confounding
    his peers with multiple decises
    “Mirrors and smoke,” added Marie, laughing“We do the same in economicsRemember, Bro, I
    told you that?”
    “I didn’t understand a word
    “No mirrors and no smoke where medicine’s involved,” said Panov“At least not where the labs
    are monitored and the pharmaceutical money boys are prohibitedLegitimate advances are
    validated every day
    “In many ways it’s the purposely undefined core of our Constitution,” continued the former
    judge“It’s as though the Founders had read Nostradamus but didn’t care to admit their frivolity, or
    perhaps studied the drawings of Da Vinci, who foresaw aircraftThey understood that they could
    not legislate the future, for they had no idea what it would hold, or what society would demand for
    its future libertiesThey created brilliant omissions
    “Unaccepted as such by the brilliant Randolph Gates, if memory serves,” said Conklin
    “Oh, he’ll change quickly now,” interrupted Prefontaine, chuckling“He was always a sworn
    companion of the wind, and he’s smart enough to adjust his sails when he has to buck it
    “I keep wondering whatever happened to the truck driver’s wife, the one in the diner who was
    married to the man they called ‘Bronk,’ ” said the psychiat
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