I've remained in touch with more than a dozen descendants of Gremlin Special survivors, victims, and rescuers. I treasured my friendship with Earl Walter Jr., the lead paratrooper who jumped into the valley to protect the survivors.
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The State Department has promised they will never have another temporary mission facility like the one in Benghazi that is so lightly protected. But at the same time, history tends to repeat itself here, and so it might not repeat itself in exactly the same way as Benghazi.
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Ponzi and all of his successors tap into a fundamental part of human nature. One part of our brain tells us this is too good to be true. The other side tells us this is too good to miss. The key to any con is getting a mark to tip to the too-good-to-miss side.
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It's not that you make a psychopath. They are - more likely, they come out that way, and they show their stripes over time.
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I'm an ex-'Globe' guy. My friends are depicted in 'Spotlight.'
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Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet!
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Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.
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New Guinea was sort of a graveyard for planes.
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I'm an ex-'Globe' guy. My friends are depicted in 'Spotlight.'
