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How Trusted Professionals Get-Away With Around Half Of Your Life's Savings "America is not going insane" "It is living in pain" Here are some major causes of that pain. Here are the people who play financial games above our laws. The organizations that can drain the economy of the cost of a Category 5 Hurricane...repeatedly. Those who harm our shared society as much or more than every other criminal offense in the land...combined. This book tells why many North Americans can not only no longer have nice things. Some can no longer even have nice dreams. Many will grow up in a disturbed nation, without even knowing where their retirement security went...nor where the nation's economic prosperity went. A glimpse within some of the greatest economic drains in the land, all of which are done invisibly by professionals. Professionals that society once could trust.

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"Absolutely 100% Not Guilty:" A Contemporary Case Study of the O.J. Simpson Trial offers readers an immersive foray into one of the most notorious legal battles in American history. The book presents the details of the murder trial, examining its impact on the U.S. legal system and popular culture. Designed for undergraduate law and criminal justice students, this edition has been carefully revised and updated to meet contemporary classroom needs. The book is structured to follow the proceedings of the trial, beginning with background on the crime, exploring the venue and key legal actors, and telling the story of the arrest, pre-trial activities, and the trial itself. Additional chapters discuss the presentation of evidence, witness testimonies, jury instructions, and closing arguments. This edition utilizes trial transcripts, imagery from the trial, and analysis of the legal processes to enhance the reader's understanding. Key criminal justice procedures such as jury selection and the ethics of prosecution and defense are succinctly explained, and a glossary of terms is included for clarity. Providing an engaging exploration of an infamous trial and its lasting impact, "Absolutely 100% Not Guilty" is ideal for courses and programs in criminal justice, law, or political science. The book is especially useful for classes that examine the U.S. legal system and the process of trial by jury, many of which will benefit tremendously from the real-world, comprehensive case study it offers.

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What if your whole life you did everything you thought you were supposed to do in order to be happy and "successful"? And by almost anyone's standards, you accomplished it; you are successful and you should be very happy. But that's not your reality; you don't feel "successful" at all. And you don't have a clue why you feel the way you do. Even more so, you feel guilty about it because you know you should be happy and should feel successful. You should have nothing to complain about. But something is missing and you can't really place your finger on it. Something is missing and you know it is something you desperately need. Welcome to Accepting Average and how it empowers us all to be exceptional.

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Political speeches and public rhetoric paint the phenomena of terrorism with a black-and-white brush, presenting it as a clear-cut battle between evildoers and heroes. With The Achille Lauro Hijacking", Michael K. Bohn, who watched the incident unfold from the White House Situation Room, uses one of the most infamous terrorist incidents of the past twenty-five years to illuminate the folly of such oversimplified jingoisms. The 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship, the amazing capture of the terrorists, and a previously untold story of American bigotry come together in this book as a case study in the complex forces that shape both terrorism and the responses that it triggers. In October 1985, four Palestinian men hijacked an Italian cruise ship, Achille Lauro, holding hundreds hostage for two days. The hijackers killed a partially disabled, sixty-nine year old Jewish American, Leon Klinghoffer, and threw his body into the sea. Many remember Klinghoffer's death, but few know of the other murder associated with the hijacking, that of Alex Odeh. Odeh defended on television Yasser Arafat's apparent role in defusing the hijacking. He was killed the next day by a terrorist's bomb, which exploded as he opened the door of his Los Angeles office - the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. Palestinians killed Klinghoffer because he was Jewish, yet Jewish extremists killed Odeh because he was a Palestinian. The Klinghoffer family's long crusade to bring the hijacking mastermind, Abu Abbas, to justice was partially satisfied with his April 2003 capture in Iraq. The Odeh family still waits for charges to be brought against Alex's murderers, a particularly disheartening situation as Israel, America's friend and ally, refuses to extradite two suspects. These two deaths pale in comparison to the atrocities of September 11, 2001. Yet understanding both the Achille Lauro incident, and the extraordinary sequence of events that followed, will help Americans better understand the threat of terrorism. Terrorism is not an enemy, it is a tactic chosen by some to further political goals. Terrorism is not just about crime and punishment; it is about violence, power politics, prejudice, hatred, land, religion, greed, money, and a host of venal factors that influence human society. All of these forces are present in the Achille Lauro hijacking and its aftermath.

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Francois Bovon and Christopher Matthews utilize manuscript evidence gathered within the last half-century to provide a new translation of the apocryphal Acts of Philip. Discovered by Bovon in 1974 at the Xenophontos monastery in Greece, the manuscript is widely known as one of the most unabridged copies of the Acts yet discovered. Bovon and Matthews' new translation incorporates this witness to the Greek text, which sheds new light on the history of earliest Christianity.

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