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Steve Martini _ Critical Mass
Good-paying jobs were shipped to Mexico or Asia where they could be downgraded to sweatshop wages while the president made empty gestures about job training and touted the benefits of the global economy. It didn't matter whether they were Republicans or Democrats, they all sang the same song.
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Steve Martini _ Critical Mass
It was Jefferson who warned that "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." There
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Steve Martini _ Critical Mass
Do you know that months now go by and the military isn't paid? Soldiers and sailors, who were once gods, are now treated like trash," said Mirnov. "When a government starts doing that, they are asking for trouble." He
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Steve Martini _ The Arraignment
My partner has no use for what passes as journalism these days, particularly on the tube. According to Harry, they spend too much time in deep admiration for politicians who show particular skill in lying, so much so that they have now institutionalized the destruction of public ethics by elevating deceit to a statecraft called "spin." It is no longer the lie that matters but the qualitative fashion in which it is told. We
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Steve Martini _ The Enemy Inside: A Paul
big brown eyeballs do a quick roll around the inside of the room.
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Steve Martini _ Critical Mass
The reach of federal criminal statutes was troubling to Joselyn. They had become so broad that they virtually mimicked every state crime. The protection of double jeopardy had become a joke. If a defendant was acquitted at the state level, but the crime violated notions of political rectitude, the defendant would be tried again at the federal level. This was now done routinely in high-profile cases where political points could be made by a president or his attorney general. While
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Steve Martini _ Compelling Evidence
Susan Hawley, I suspect, is a woman much in demand in the rarefied zone of political nightlife in this city. She is the ultimate ornament to be hung from the arm of important political figures or captains of industry during quiet dinner meetings. In her commercial dealings, hundred-dollar bills appear in considerable quantity in her purse the morning after, like fishes and loaves in the basket after the Sermon on the Mount.
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Steve Martini _ Undue Influence
denials are the small talk of the lawyer's venue, more common than discussions of the weather,
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Steve Martini _ Undue Influence
We are a society that sheds spouses and takes on new lovers faster than a raja can work through his harem. We dissolve entire families on a whimsy of lust. We pursue bald ambition as if it were the true religion, leaving our children to come home to empty houses, to fix their own meals, to cope with the crippling insecurities of adolescence, while we engage in an endless chase after the grail of possessions. And we have the audacity to wonder who killed the innocence of childhood.
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Steve Martini _ The Attorney
desk to me. "She had her hair cut like Meg Ryan, the movie star. Everybody
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Steve Martini _ Shadow Of Power
With books as with most things in life, when you're successful, it's always good to have a second act.
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Steve Martini _ The Arraignment
Nick, putting you on any committee would be an act of anarchy. The only administrative position for which you're qualified is emperor, and that would only work in hell and then only if there were bars on the windows.
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