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What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading


Alice James

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ALICE FISHER When individuals meet here in the shadow of our nation's capital to go prepare for violent action, w...
ALICE FISHER [The standoff stems from an FBI e-mail revealed during recent litigation over detainee-abuse allegat...
ALICE FISHER Philip Bloom admits offering millions in bribes so that he and his companies could receive contracts...
ALICE FISHER Government officials and government action are not for sale. The Justice Department will aggressivel...
ALICE FISHER Providing persons with unknown backgrounds undetected entry into our country is a threat to national...
ALICE FISHER We compile information sent in to us by police and sheriff's offices.
ALICE ERICKSON I can't say they won't be arrested. It's up to the police agency whether they arrest them on a warra...
ALICE ERICKSON If (an individual) doesn't have one, we'll establish one in that name. If they have an existing one,...
ALICE ERICKSON They send in a fingerprint card or a misdemeanor citation with fingerprints on it. They're put into ...
ALICE ERICKSON People are active still and kind of wanting to rekindle those connections.
ALICE EMBREE Those were great times to have lived, ... As hard as they were, they tested you. I think all of us w...
ALICE EMBREE The mass media molds everyone into more passive roles, into roles of more frantic consuming, into hu...
ALICE EMBREE America's technology has turned in upon itself; its corporate form makes it the servant of profits, ...
ALICE EMBREE It's no secret that there is an epidemic of chronic illness in this country, and more and more Ameri...
ALICE DOMAR Research shows that a woman who has a history of depression is twice as likely to subsequently exper...
ALICE DOMAR Women who came into the program were very depressed and very anxious, and very angry and their marri...
ALICE DOMAR There's also no evidence that simply worrying about a disease can make it worse.
ALICE DOMAR