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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...or another. Sung Ki lit a cigarette and sat on a balcony that overlooked the mountains and rice patties of Umsong. After a few more moments of silence... ...d (encounters both sexual and cultural). Large buildings were like the small mountains of Umsong with a topping of cloud on a rainy day--monuments of ... ...m to its domain that edified and exhilarated his appetites and his love. The mountains, until recently, transported his imagination to green blankets ... ...ends; and yet some of unknown Antarctica, a dreamy non-asthmatic land of ice mountains and valleys. In such a place dreamed about and sketched from he... ... of her own brothel. She wanted to take him to Lake Placid in the Adirondack Mountains too but common sense prevailed. She had second thoughts about t... ...ell, you haven't seen your mother play racket ball before. It isn't exactly Olympic material but it's close. Hmm...oh, my, we got so carried away wit... ...wn breath, fantasies of women passing the romanticism of love to her like an Olympic torch, the fantasies of young men as juicy to look at as the Cand...

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Jockeys and Jewels

By: Bev Pettersen

...hecking the blue patch of sky. The weather was fickle, affected by the nearby mountains. It had been hailing when he woke but now it was sunny and w... ...Otto's mare tomorrow,” he said. “He thought it'd be a nice day to ride in the mountains. Can you show me where your place is? Maybe guide me around ... ...ff anymore so she relaxed in the seat and admired the vast stretch of looming mountains. Their jagged teeth were stark against the sweep of blue and... ...s can drink. Lots of grass too.” He forced his eyes off Julie and studied the mountains still topped with snow. “They’re beautiful. Like a movie bac... ...o the first question, there was only one other reason why he’d ride up in the mountains with a pocketful of condoms. “I didn’t really want to look ... ... to his feet, peeled off soiled gloves and wiped a liver-spotted forehead. “Olympic Hill,” Kurt said. “I must have missed the turnoff.” The garde... ...ent. Tears blurred Jessica’s vision as she absorbed the numbing headline. Olympic Hopeful Engaged to Team Trainer. A cry choked in her throat, a...

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Died and Moved In

By: Christine Jones

...mire the magnificent views of a rural landscape surrounded by snow-capped mountains. One of the reasons I brought this place, classic postcard stuff... ...id myself more damage. “Oh really.” Michael smiled. “Have you gone up the mountains there?” He pointed at what I consider Mount Everest. “Ah no, but... ...but I’ve heard its fabulous, great, wonderful views, couldn’t find better mountains.” “I get the message,” Michael replied. “Sounds good. I’m looking... ... my state of mind. 25 With Michael off to the kitchen, I’ve performed an Olympic dash into the little hallway, before bursting into my bedroom. Fir... ... the views, the clean air and how he’s looking forward to going up to the mountains. He asks what my plans are for my bit of earth. I stun him with ... ...oots. It’s well after midday, the frosts have melted, there’s snow on the mountains and the sun might be shining, but it’s bloody cold out here. I w...

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne Book the Second

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...n at his marriage; and yet it was after a long practice of arms beyond the mountains, of which wars he left us a journal under his own hand, wherein h... ...styllus, Diopompos, and others, that to keep their bodies in order for the Olympic games and such like exercises, they denied themselves dur- ing that... ... mares with which he had three times gained the prize of the course at the Olympic Games. The ancient Xantippus caused his dog to be interred on an em... ... stand in as much need of us as we do of them, like people at sea, to whom mountains, fields, cities, heaven and earth are tossed at the same rate as ... ...ysius the father valued himself upon nothing so much as his poetry; at the Olympic games, with chariots surpassing all the others in magnificence, he ... ... a poor, drawling, scurvy language. There is, indeed, above us towards the mountains a sort of Gascon spoken, that I am 160 Book the Second mightily ... ... [“They are headlong borne with burning fury as great stones torn from the mountains, by which the steep sides are left naked and bare.”—Juvenal, Sat.... ...d and crackling shrubs of laurel, or as with impetuous fall from the steep mountains, foaming torrents pour down to the ocean, each clearing a destruc...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...ad. There are patents on human genes, on auctions, on algorithms. 2 The U.S. Olympic Committee has an xi 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page xi ex... ...28/08 11:04 AM Page xi expansive right akin to a trademark over the word “Olympic” and will not permit gay activists to hold a “Gay Olympic Games.”... ...n there was, for example, a desire of the people living in Denver to see the mountains again. Similarly, the people living in Los An- geles had a desi... ... Chapter 7. 3. San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc., et al. v. United States Olympic Committee, 483 U.S. 522 (1987). See also James Boyle, Shamans, So... ...iii, 19, 24, 254, 256n6, 258n20. Olson, Mancur, 59, 236, 272n12, 294n3. U.S. Olympic Committee, rights over the term ‘Olympic,’ xi–xii, 250n3. Online ... ...1, 290, 290n24. San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc, et al. v. United States Olympic Committee, 483 U.S. 522 (1987). See U.S. Olympic Committee, right...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

... cream, everyone’s fave. Contrasting textures both creamy and sweet, of Olympic proportions, you’re everyone’s treat. Y ou’re addictive and order... ...m. For APEC Members & Family Mauna Loa CHOCOLATE COVERED MACADAMIA NUTS • Mountains. 5 oz. 2 09 APEC# 6982. • 6 pk. Mountains. 11 99 APEC# 6983.... ...i‘anae Coast of O‘ahu. On 16 acres of fertile soil beneath the Wai‘anae mountains, MA‘O Organic Farms raises top-quality organic fruits and veget... ...dant of Hawaiian royalty. A swimming sensation in his 20s, he became an Olympic gold medalist in 1912 and represented the United States in world ...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...eus tried to kill both sisters. They fled, and he pursued. In the end, the Olympic gods changed all three into birds. Cave drawings, notched stic... ...their flight along the crowded, rough, and rugged road toward the eastern mountains, Chinese soldiers died by the thousands, but the Arabs singled ou... ...as the Gobi Desert. Between the harsh desert and the moderately watered mountains to the north, vast stretches of steppe turn green after summer r... ...e at constant risk of their lives. So they hid in deep forests, dells, and mountains and trekked from town to town, receiving food and shelter from t...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...The sun was sinking. “It is time,” said he, “to go and fetch Armida to the Olympic.” 27 Burlesques PHIL FOGARTY A TALE OF THE FIGHTING ONETY- ONETH. ... ...ell- bred to pretend to remark his emotion. The sun was setting behind the mountains as our songs were finished, and each began to look out with some ... ...f November, which are only known in the valleys of Languedoc and among the mountains of Alsace, that two cavaliers might have been per- ceived by the ... ...oats by it in silver magnificence, and on the opposite bank rise the seven mountains robed in majestic purple, the monarchs of the royal scene. A plea... ...ay!—away amid the green vineyards and golden cornfields; away up the steep mountains, where he frightened the eagles in their eyries; away down the cl... ...ave horse! gallant steed! snorting child of Araby! On went the horse, over mountains, rivers, turnpikes, apple-women; and never stopped until he reach...

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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

...e grace of Allah, a safe base here is now available in the high Hindu Kush mountains in Khurasan. ” But the T aliban, like the Sudanese, would eventua... ...ar 1997.The additional funds included the FBI’s support of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah (a onetime increase), enhanced security at... ...ncerned about the danger posed by aircraft since at least the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.There he had tried to create an air defense plan using assets from... ...bout the danger posed by aircraft in the context of protecting the Atlanta Olympics of 1996, the White House complex, and the 2001 G-8 summit in Genoa... ...d’s idea, see chapter 5, note 33. 16. For Clarke’s involvement in the 1996 Olympics, see Richard Clarke interview (Dec. 18, 2003). For the 1998 exerci...

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