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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    2:31 am
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    There were so many desires in him at the moment, conflicting, ambiguous, things he had never quite felt beforeHe had to stop and think it out"All right, take anybody you want He lit a cigarette, and stared at his leggings, dismissing Croft
    Around them, the men were pacing moodily through the hollow, agitated, a little hysterical from the suddenness of the ambush and the discovery mens gucci watches that Wilson had been lostThey snapped at each other irritably
    Brown and Red were having an argument"You bastards weren't in the field, you were sitting there behind that goddam rockCouldn't you even keep your fuggin heads up high enough to see if anybody got hit?" Red swore
    "What the hell are you talkin' about, Red? If it hadn't been for us covering you guys, you all woulda Tiffany Necklace been knocked off
    "Aaah, balls, you yellow bastards, ducking down behind that rock
    Red slapped his forehead"Jesus Christ, Wilson, of all the guys to be lost
    Gallagher wandered back and forth, smacking his hand against his forehead"How the fug did we lose him?" he demanded"Where is he?"
    "Sit down, Gallagher," Stanley shouted
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    "How's it going, Polack?"
    "No kicks Polack kept walking silently
    There was a resistance they had toward himThey were cautious, perhaps distrustfulHe was an officer, and instinctively they would be waryBut there was more to it, he feltCroft had been with them so long, had controlled the platoon so deville watch completely, that probably they could not believe Croft was no longer the platoon leaderThey were afraid to respond to him, afraid Croft would remember whenever he resumed his commandThe thing was to make them understand that he would be with the platoon permanentlyBut that would take timeIf only he had had a week with them in bivouac, a few gucci ladies watches minor patrols before thisHearn shrugged again, wiped some sweat from his foreheadThe sun was fierce once more
    And the hills were always risingAll morning the platoon plodded through the tall grass, climbing slowly, trudging through valleys, laboring awkwardly around the slopes of the hillsTheir fatigue started again, their breath grew short, sale gucci handbags and their faces burned from the sun and the exertionNow, no one was talking, and they progressed sullenly in file
    The sun clouded over, and it began to rainThis was pleasant at first, for the rain was cool and stirred a breeze along the top of the grass, but soon the ground turned soft and their shoes fouled with mudBy degrees they became chanel watch j12 completely wet againTheir heads drooping, their rifle muzzles pointed toward the ground to avoid the rain, the file of men looked like a row of wilted flowersEverything about them sagged
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    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    2:31 am
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    simple directness from his dark complex natureAt the end of the
    song
    Polly threw her arms around Gerald's neck and hid her face in
    his shoulderMaureen lifted the bones above her shoulder"We'll
    have
    a reel now," she announced firmly
    "My toes are fairly twitching Daniel laughed and began to rolex prices play
    Scarlett had danced the Virginia reel a hundred times or more, but
    she'd never seen dancing like what happened next at Patricia's
    birthday
    partyMatt O 'Hara began itWith his shoulders straight and his arms
    stiff at his side he looked like a soldier when he stepped away from the
    circle of chairsThen his feet began to pound and flash and twist and
    move so quickly Chanel Purse that they blurred in Scarlett's visionThe floor
    became a resounding drum under his heels, became like polished ice
    under his intricate impossible steps forward and backHe must be the
    best dancer in the whole world, Scarlett thoughtAnd then Katie
    danced out to face him, her skirts held up in her two hands so that her
    feet were free to match his stepsMary Kate kelly bag hermes was next, then Jamie
    joined his daughterAnd beautiful Helen with a cousin, a little boy
    who couldn't be older than eightI don't believe it, Scarlett
    thoughtThey're magic, all of themThe music's magic, tooHer
    feet moved, faster than they'd ever moved before, trying to mimic
    what
    she was seeing, trying to express the excitement of the musicI've
    got to learn to black quilted bag dance like that, I've just got tolike
    you spin right up to the sunA sleeping child under the settee woke
    at the sounds of the dancing feet and began to cryLike a contagion,
    crying spread to the other smallest childrenThe dancing and the
    music stopped"Make some mattresses from folded blankets in the
    other
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    @@@@@She also remembered that Scarlett had not
    @@@@@She
    also
    remembered that Scarlett had not told them she was going out that
    morning, nor where she had beenWhen Scarlett reported that she'd
    been to the Cathedral, Pauline put her finger to her lipsPere, she
    said, was unfortunately extremely opposed to Roman CatholicismIt
    had
    something to do with French history, she wasn't sure what, but he got
    very angry about the ChurchThat was the reason she and Eulalie
    always left Charleston after Mass to come to Savannah and left
    Savannah
    on Saturday to return to CharlestonThis year there was a particular
    difficulty; because Easter was so early, they would be in Savannah for
    Ash Wednesday
    Naturally they had to attend Mass, and they could leave the house
    early
    and unobservedBut how could they keep their father from seeing the
    smudges of ash on their foreheads when they returned to the house?
    "Wash your face," said Scarlett impatiently, thereby revealing her
    ignorance and the recent date of her return to religionShe dropped
    her napkin on the table"I've got to be off," she said brisklyI'm going to visit my O'Hara uncles and aunts She didn't want
    anyone to know that she was trying to buy the convent's share of
    Tara
    Especially not her aunts, they gossiped too muchWhy, they might
    even
    write to Suellen"What time do we leave in the
    morning for Mass?"
    She'd be sure to mention it to the Mother SuperiorNo need to let on
    that she'd forgotten all about Ash WednesdayWhat a bother it was
    that she'd left her rosary in CharlestonOh, well, she could buy a
    new one at her O'Hara uncles' storeIf she remembered correctly,
    they
    had everything in there from bonnets to plows
    "Miss Scarlett, when are we going home to Atlanta? I don't feel
    comfortable with the folks in your Grandpa's kitchenAnd my shoes is just about wore out from all this walking
    When are we going home where you got all the fine carriages?"
    "Stop that everlasting complaining, PansyWe'll go when I say go and
    where I say go Scarlett's response had no real heat in it; she was
    trying to remember where her uncles' store was, and having no luckI
    must be catching old folks' forgetfulness
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    2:31 am
    @@@@@ “Abstractions?” asked Panov gently“That’s
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    “Abstractions?” asked Panov gently“That’s such an erroneously passive termHave you any
    idea what thunder in the mind abstractions provoke?”
    “I don’t even know what you’re talking about
    “Those gray cells, AlexThey go crazy, spinning around like infinitesimal Ping-Pong balls
    trying to find tiny tunnels to explode through, drawn by their own inherent compulsions
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    440
    “You said it yourself, the coincidence of evilBut I’d suggest another conductor—the magnet of
    evilThat’s what you and David created, and within that magnetic field was Medusa
    Conklin spun around in the chair and wheeled himself toward the balcony and the descending
    orange glow on the horizon beyond the deep-green out islands of Montserrat“I wish everything
    was as simple as you put it, Mo,” he said rapidly
    “You’ll have to be clearer
    “Krupkin’s a dead man
    “What?”
    “I mourn him as a friend and one hell of an enemyHe made everything possible for us, and
    when it was all over, he did what was right, not what was orderedHe let David live and now he’s
    paying for it
    “What happened to him?”
    “According to Holland, he disappeared from the hospital in Moscow five days ago—he simply
    took his clothes and walked outNo one knows how he did it or where he went, but an hour after he
    left, the KGB came to arrest him and move him to the Lubyanka
    “Then they haven’t caught him—”
    “They willWhen the Kremlin issues a Black Alert, every road, train station, airport and border
    crossing is put under a microscopeThe incentives are irresistible: whoever lets him out will spend
    ten years in a gulagIt’s just a question of time
    There was a knock on the front door and Panov called out“It’s open because it’s easier! Come
    in
    The be-blazered, immaculately dressed assistant manager, MrPritchard, entered, preceded by a
    room-service table that he was capable of pushing while standing completely er
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    the time element spared themEverything was timing now, and “West Germany” would initiate the
    wholesale conflagrationsHe adjusted the coarse Portuguese shirt that covered a Spanish general’s
    tunic beneath, and as the guard came out of the gatehouse Carlos spoke in Russian, using the same
    words he had used at every other crossing
    “Don’t ask me to speak the stupid language you talk hereI deliver petrol, I don’t spend time in
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    “I barely speak it myself, comrade,” said the guard, laughing as he accepted the small, Cartier tank flat, cardlike
    object and inserted it into the computerized machineThe heavy iron barrier arced up into the
    vertical position; the guard returned the key and the Jackal sped through into a miniaturized “West
    Berlin
    He raced through the narrow replica of the Kurfürstendamm to the Budapesterstrasse, where he
    slowed down and pulled out the petcock releaseThe fuel flowed into the streetHe then reached
    into the open duffel bag on the seat beside him, ripped out the small pretimed plastique explosives
    and, as he had done throughout the southern compounds to the border of “France,” hurled them
    through the lowered windows on both sides of the truck into the foundations of the wooden
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    in “Bad Godesberg,” flooding the streets, distributing the explosivesHe looked at his watch; it was
    time to head backHe had barely fifteen minutes before the first detonations took place in all of
    “West Germany,” followed by the explosions in the combined compounds of “Italy-Greece,”
    “Israel-Egypt” and “Spain-Portugal,” each spaced eight minutes apart, timed to create maximum
    chaos
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    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    425
    adjacent compounds only to be recalled when the fires erupted on their own groundsIt was a
    simple formula for cosmic confusion, the cosmos being the false universe of NovgorodThe border
    gates, would be flagged open, frantic traffic unimpeded, and to complete the devastation, the genius
    that was Ilich Ramirez Sanchez—brought into the world of terror as Carlos the Jackal by the errors
    of that same Novgorod—had to be in “Paris Not his Paris, but the hated Novgorod’s “Paris,” and
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    I alone have done thisMy enemies are dead and I live
    Carlos checked his duffel bag; what remained were the most lethal instruments of death found in
    the arsenal of KubinkaFour layered rows of short-packaged, heat-seeking missiles, twenty in all,
    each capable of blowing up the entire base of the Washington Monument; and once fused and
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    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    2:31 am
    @@@@@ "Is she out?" I looked at her, slumped in
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    "Is she out?" I looked at her, slumped in her
    chairHer eyes were open, but they looked
    vacantly at a point in the far corner
    "Elizabeth?" There was no response
    "Was it a stroke?" Wireman asked"I never knew
    they could be so violent
    "That was no strokeSomething shut her upGo to
    the hospital with her-"
    "Of course I'll-"
    "And if she says anything else, listen"They're waiting for her at the
    hospitalAn ambulance will be here any minute
    He stared hard at Wireman, and then his look
    softened"Oh, all right," he said
    "Oh all right?" Wireman asked"What does that
    mean, oh all right?"
    736
    "It means if something like this was going to
    happen," Hadlock said, "where do you think she
    would have wanted it to happen? At home in bed, or
    in one of the galleries where she spent so many
    happy days and nights?"
    Wireman took in a deep, shaky breath, let it out,
    nodded, then knelt beside her and began to brush
    at her hairElizabeth's face was patchy-red in
    places, and bloated, as if she were having an
    extreme allergic reaction
    Hadlock bent and tilted her head back, trying to
    ease her terrible raspingNot long after, we
    heard the approaching warble of the ambulance
    viii
    The show dragged on and I stuck it out, partly
    because of all the effort Dario, Jimmy, and Alice
    had put into the thing, but mostly for Elizabeth
    I thought it was what she would have wantedMy
    moment in the sun, she'd called it
    I didn't go to the celebratory dinner afterwards,
    thoughI made my excuses, then sent Pam and the
    girls on with Kamen, Kathi, and some others from
    737
    MinneapolisWatching them pull away, I realized I
    hadn't made arrangements for a ride to the
    hospitalWhile I was standing there in front of
    the gallery, wondering if Alice Aucoin had left
    yet, a beat-to-shit old Mercedes pulled up beside
    me, and the passenger window slid down
    "Get in," Mary Ire
    2:30 am
    @@@@@ He lifted one hand in the air, as if to
    @@@@@ He lifted one
    hand in the air, as if to wave off a commiseration
    I hadn't offered"It's a chemical imbalance thing,
    and it's a bitch getting used to the pillsThey
    muddy up your thinking at first - they did mine,
    anywayI went off them awhile, but I'm back on
    704
    now and life's looking betterIt's either the
    fake endorphins kicking in or the effect of
    springtime in The Land of a Billion Lakes
    "And The Freemantle Company?"
    "The books are in the black, but it's not the same
    without youI came down here thinking I might
    pitch you on coming backThen I got a look at
    what you're doing and realized your days in the
    building biz are probably done
    He gestured toward the canvases in the main room
    "What are they, really? I mean, no bullshit
    Because - I wouldn't say this to very many people
    - they remind me of the way life was inside my
    head when I wasn't taking my pills
    "They're just make-believe," I said
    "I know about shadows," he said"You just want to
    be careful they don't grow teeth
    Then, sometimes when you reach for the lightswitch
    to make them go away, you discover the
    power's out
    "But you're better now
    705
    "Yes," he said"Pam had a lot to do with that
    Can I tell you something about her you might
    already know?"
    "Sure," I said, only hoping he wasn't going to
    share the fact that she sometimes laughed way down
    in her throat when she came
    "She has great insight but little kindness," Tom
    said"It's a weirdly cruel mixbut not necessarily because I
    thought he was wrong
    "She gave me a brisk talking-to about taking care
    of myself not so long ago, and it hit homeAnd from the look of her, you might be in
    for a talking-to yourself, EdgarI think I might
    find your friend Kamen and engage him in a bit of
    a disco
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    2:31 am
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    You may remember the first lesson I learned from my rich dadI was a little boy of 9 who had to sit and wait for him to choose to talk to meI often sat in zucca fendi bag his office waiting for him to "get to me He was ignoring me on purpose He wanted me to recognize his power and desire to have that power for myself one dayFor all the years I studied J and learned from him, he always reminded me that knowledge was powerAnd with money comes great power that requires the right knowledge to keep it and make it multiplyWithout that knowledge, the world gucci ladies watch pushes you around Rich dad constantly reminded Mike and me that the biggest bully was not the boss or the supervisor, but the tax manThe tax man will always take more if you let him
    The first lesson of having money work for me, as opposed to working for money, is really all about powerIf you work for money, you give the power up to your employerIf your money works for you, you balenciaga replica keep and control the power
    Once we had this knowledge of the power of money working for us, he wanted us to be financially smart and not let bullies push us aroundYou need to know the law and how the system worksIf you're ignorant, it is easy to be bulliedIf you know what you're talking about, you have a fighting chanceThat is why he paid so much for smart tax accountants and hermes replica attorney
    2:30 am
    @@@@@The fear of being different prevents most
    @@@@@The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems
    That is why my educated dad said the Japanese valued the power of the mirror the most, for it is only when we as humans look into the mirror do we find truthAnd the main reason that most people say "Play it safe1' is out of fearThat goes for anything, be it sports, relationships, career, money
    It is that same fear, the fear of ostracism that causes people to conform and not question commonly accepted opinions or popular trends "Your home is an asset "Get a bill consolidation loan and get out of debt "Someday I'll be a vice president "When ! get a raise, I'll buy us a bigger house "Mutual funds are safe "Tickle Me Elmo dolls are out of stock, but I just happen to have one in back that another customer has not come by for yet
    Many great financial problems are caused by going along with the crowd and trying to keep up with the Joneses Occasionally, we all need to look in the mirror and be true to our inner wisdom rather than our fears
    By the time Mike and I were 16 years old, we began to have problems in schoolWe just began to separate from the crowdWe worked for Mike's dad after school and on the weekends Mike and I often spent hours after work just sitting at a table with his dad while he held meetings with his bankers, attorneys, accountants, brokers, investors, managers and employeesHere was a man who had left school at the age of 13, now directing, instructing, ordering and asking questions of educated peopleThey came at his beck and call, and cringed when he did not approve of them
    Here was a man who had not gone along with the crowd He was a man 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 re
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    2:31 am
    @@@@@ If I had a few company commanders who were
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    If I had a few company commanders who were perceptive, the whole process would be simpler, more responsive, and yet it's too much to ask sensitivity of a CO besides all the other things he has to haveNo, it's my fault, I should have seen it in spite of themPerhaps for this reason the early success of the attack gave him little elationHe was pleased, naturally enough, because his greatest burden had been removedThe pressure from Corps had relaxed, and the fear that for a time had colored everything -- that he would be relieved of his command in the middle of the campaign -- had retreated now, and would expire if the advance continued favorablyStill he had substituted one dissatisfaction for anotherCummings was bothered by a suspicion, very faint, not quite stated, that he had no more to do with the success of the attack than a man who presses a button and waits for the elevatorIt muddied the edges of his satisfaction, angered him subtlyThe odds were that the attack would bog down sooner or later in any case, and when he left tomorrow for Army, this present success was going to hurt his chances of getting naval support for the Botoi Bay operationIn effect he would have to commit himself, claim that the campaign could be won only by that side invasion, and there would be the ticklish business of having to undercut, disparage the advances he had made already
    Nevertheless, things had changedReynolds had sent him a confidential memo that Army might not frown completely on the Botoi idea now, and when he saw them he could maneuver itThat type of favor was manageable
    In the meantime he had been playing the fraud with himself, he knewAll day as he had sat in the operations tent, reading the reports that had come in, he had been a little annoyedHe had felt like a politician on election night, he thought, who was watching the party candidate win and feeling chagrined because he had tried to nominate another manThe damn thing was unimaginative, stale, any commander could have mounted it as successfully, and it would be galling to admit that Army was right
    But of course they weren'tThere was going to be trouble ahead, and they refused to accept itFor a moment Cummings thought of the reconnaissance patrol he had sent to the other side of the mountain, and he shruggedIf that came off, if they brought back a report of some value, if indeed he could manage to send a company over their route, and pull off the Botoi Bay invasion that way, it would be fine, impressiveBut there were too many chances against itThe best thing was to dismiss Hearn's patrol from his calculations until it returned
    Despite all his internal objections he had been busy, he had given all his attention to the advance, concentrated on all the reports that came inIt had been exhausting, demanding work, and by nightfall he was tired, needed some diversi
    2:30 am
    @@@@@ "Sure, Listen, I'll tell ya, all these
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    "Sure, Listen, I'll tell ya, all these guys who are always braggin', even a guy like Wilson here He lowered his voice"Listen, you can't tell me they didn't have the same troublesIt's always hard to get adjusted
    He liked GoldsteinThe amalgam of the night, the rustling of the leaves in the wood, worked subtly on him, opening the door to all his uncertainties"Look," he said abruptly, "what do you think of me?" He was still young enough to make this question the climax of any confidential talk Goldstein always answered a question like this by telling people what they wanted to hearHe was not being consciously dishonest; he always generated warmth for the person who asked him even if he had never been a friend"Mmm, I'd say that you're an intelligent fellow with your feet on the groundAnd you're kind of ambitious, which is a good thingI'd say you'll probably go places And until this moment he had never quite liked Stanley for exactly these reasons, although he had not admitted it to himselfGoldstein had a formal respect for successBut once Stanley had exposed his weaknesses, Goldstein was ready to make virtues of all his other qualities"You're mature for your age, very mature," Goldstein finished
    "Well, I've always tried to do more things than I had to Stanley fingered his long straight nose, scratched at his mustache, which had become scraggly in the past two days"I was president of our junior class in high school," he said deprecatingly"I don't mean that that's anything to beat my meat about, but it taught me how to get along with people
    "It must have been a valuable experience," Goldstein said wistfully
    "You know," Stanley confided, "a lot of the guys in the platoon are pissed off at me 'cause I came in after them and made corporalThey think I brown-nosed and there ain't a goddam bit of truth in thatI just kept my eyes open, and did what I was told to do, but I'll tell ya it's a damn sight harder job than you realizeThese guys who been around in the platoon for a long time, they think they own it, when all they do is fug-off on the details, and just try to make it hard for you
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    2:31 am
    @@@@@They walked on in silence for a whileThen
    @@@@@They walked on in silence for a
    whileThen Colum said, "It was a noble dream your father had to
    build
    a new Tara in this new world of AmericaHe must have been a fine
    man
    indeed
    I loved him very much
    "When next I go to Tara, I'll think of him and of his daughter I
    "When next you go? Do you mean it's still there? It's a real
    place?"
    "As real as the road beneath our feet
    It's a gentle green hill with magic in it and sheep grazing on it, and
    from the top you can see for great distances all around the same
    beautiful world the High Kings sawIt's not far from the village
    where I live, where your father and mine were born, in County Meath
    Scarlett was thunderstruckPa must have gone there, too, must have
    stood where the High Kings stood! She could picture him sticking out
    his chest and strutting the way he did when he was pleased with
    himself
    It made her laugh softlyWhen they reached the Robillard house she
    stopped reluctantlyShe would have liked to walk for hours listening
    to Colum's lilting voice"I don't know how to thank you for
    everything," she told him"I feel a million times better now
    I'm so sure you'll make the Bishop change his mind
    "One thing at a time, CousinFirst the fierce MacMahonBut what
    name shall I tell him, Scarlett? I see the band on your finger
    You're not O'Hara to the BishopMy married name is Butler Colum's smile
    collapsed, then returned"It's a powerful name
    "In South Carolina it is, but I don't see that it's done me much good
    hereMy husband's from Charleston, his name is Rhett Butl
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    And I'm going to Mass with my cousins, the O'HarasWho-by the
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    long
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    what he's really up to, she thought againShe'd
    probably find out soon enoughIt wasn't really importantBefore he
    came out with it, Rhett would probably have come for her anyhow
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    the
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    Square he
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    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
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    “Some army!” said Conklin
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    chin beard had been removed—and refused to speak to anyone until he had finished his third
    brandyLike Panov, Conklin and David Webb, he was clearly a hurt man, a wounded man, a man
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    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
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    the SovietHe held up both hands, as a pope might from his balcony in StPeter’s Square, and
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    “Just tell us what happened,” said Marie
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    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
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    breathingThen:
    "Jack's severely freaked, and you got to prepare
    for a shock, muchachoThough you may already have
    an idea-"
    There was a beep, and then the sixth message
    startedIt was still Wireman, now rather pissed
    off, which made him sound more like himself
    "Fucking short-ass message tape! Chinche pedorra!
    Ay! Edgar, Jack and I are going over to Abbot-
    Wexler A brief pause as he worked to
    keep it togetherthe funeral home she wanted
    I'll be back by oneYou really ought to wait for
    us before you go in your houseIt isn't trashed
    or anything, but I want to be with you when you
    look in that basket and when you see what got left
    in your studio upstairsI don't like to be
    mysterious, but Wireman ain't putting this shit on
    a message-tape anybody might listen toAnd
    there's one more thingOne of her lawyers called
    Left a message on the machine - Jack and I were
    still up in the fucking atticHe says I'm her
    sole beneficiary
    iii
    I punched 0 for the hotel operatorAfter a short
    wait, she gave me the number of the Abbot-Wexler
    Funeral ParlorA robot answered,
    offering me a truly amazing array of deathoriented
    services ("For Casket Showroom, push 5")
    I waited it out - the offer for an actual human
    being always comes last these days, a booby-prize
    for boobs who can't cope with the twenty-first
    century - and while I waited I thought about
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    post-accident memory was unreliable, of course,
    but habit wasn'tBig Pink did not belong to me,
    and I had been taught since earliest childhood to
    take especial care of what belonged to othersI
    was pretty sure I had locked the houseSo if
    someone had been inside, why hadn't the door been
    forced?
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    wet dresses - little girls with decayed faces who
    spoke in the grating voice of the shells under the
    776
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    shudderThey had been only imagination, surely,
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    Ahead, the lights of the hospital were twinkling
    in the darkThere was a Waffle House right next
    doorIt was probably good business for the
    cardiac unit
    "Will you give Libby my love, if she's in any
    condition to take note of such things?"
    740
    "Sure
    "And I have something for youIt's in the glove
    compartmentI was going to use
    it to bait the hook for a follow-up interview, but
    fuck it
    I had some problems with the old car's glove
    compartment button, but finally the little door
    fell open like a corpse's mouthThere was a lot
    more than a manila envelope in there - a geologist
    could have taken core-samples probably going back
    to 1965 - but the envelope was in front, and it
    had my name printed on it
    As she pulled up in front of the hospital, in a
    spot marked 5 MINUTES PICK-UP AND DROP-OFF, Mary
    said: "Prepare to be amazedAn old copyeditor
    friend of mine chased that down for me -
    she's older than Libby, but still sharp
    I bent back the clasps and slid out two Xeroxed
    sheets of an ancient newspaper story"That," Mary
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    because I never looked as far south as Port
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    in 1931
    The streetlight beneath which she'd parked wasn't
    good enough for the fine print, but I could read
    the headline and see the pictureI looked for a
    long time
    "It means something to you, doesn't it?" she askedI just don't know what
    "If you figure it out, will you tell me?"
    "All right," I said"You might even believe itthis is one story you'll never printAnd thanks for coming to my
    showRemember to give Libby my
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
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    "OK, why?"
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    "So it is the fear of the government or other people you owe money I to that motivates you?"
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    2:30 am
    @@@@@He gave to his church, to charities, to his
    @@@@@He gave to his church, to charities, to his foundationHe knew that to receive money, you had to give moneyGiving money is the secret to most great wealthy familiesThat is why there are organizations like the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ford FoundationThese are organizations designed to take their wealth and increase it, as well as give it away in perpetuity
    My educated dad always said, "When I have some extra money, I'll give it The problem was, there was never any extraSo he worked harder to draw more money in rather than focus on the most important law of money: "Give and you shall receive Instead, he believed in "Receive and then you give
    In conclusion, I became both dads One part of me is a hard-core capitalist who loves the game of money making moneyThe other side is ': a socially responsible teacher who is deeply concerned with this ever-widening gap between the haves and have notsI personally hold the archaic educational system primarily responsible for this growing gap

    CHAPTER EIGHT
    Overcoming Obstacles

    Once people have studied and become financially literate, they may still face roadblocks to becoming financially independentThere are five main reasons why financially literate people may still not develop abundant asset columnsAsset columns that could produce large sums of cash flowAsset columns that could free them to live the life they dream of, instead of working full time just to pay billsThe five reasons are:
    1Overcoming the fear of losing moneyI have never met anyone who really likes losing moneyAnd in all my years, I have never met a rich person who has never lost moneyBut I have met a lot of poor people who have never lost a dime
    The fear of losing money is realBut it's not fear that is the problemIt's how you handle
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