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I'm a huge Michael Lewis fan.
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Michael
Lewis
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New Guinea was sort of a graveyard for planes.
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Graveyard
Guinea
Planes
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I need to know everything inside quote marks is true.
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Marks
Quote
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I'm an ex-'Globe' guy. My friends are depicted in 'Spotlight.'
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Spotlight
Depicted
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As a journalist, you're always worried, 'Did I get the full story?'
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Worried
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More people will watch 'Spotlight' than will ever read the 'Globe' series that inspired it.
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Spotlight
People Will More
More People
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There are very few people whose names come to symbolize their achievement, even if it's a negative achievement.
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Achievement
Few People
Symbolize
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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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Common
Desire
Driven
Easy
The One Thing
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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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Stripes
Time Way More
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No Ponzi schemer tells anyone exactly how it works. The purpose of a Ponzi scheme is to trick people, to take the money and run.
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Running
People
Purpose
Scheme
Trick
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We all should respect Chris Stevens, who dedicated his life to trying to improve relations between the Arab world and the western world.
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Arab World
Dedicated
Western World
Arab
Chris
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We've suffered a "Ponzification" of the economy in recent years, as bubbles have built up and then burst, and each time we act as though it's the first time.
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Economy
Firsts
Years
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We've suffered a 'Ponzification' of the economy in recent years, as bubbles have built up and then burst, and each time we act as though it's the first time.
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Bubbles
Burst
Suffered
Each Time
Recent
Recent Years
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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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Bob
Oldest Son
Song
Theme
Tv Series
Years
Michael
Oldest
Royalties
Theme Song
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I think more and more, in places like Benghazi, in places like Iran, we have to be asking the question, can we trust the local government to protect our people?
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Benghazi
Iran
Local Government
Trust Government People
More And More
Our People
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Sending a book out into the world is a lot like sending your child to the first day of kindergarten. You hope the other kids play nice and that she makes friends.
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Book
Children
Nice
Hope World Day
Other Kids
Sending
Your Child
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Nathaniel Philbrick's 'In the Heart of the Sea' has rightfully taken its place as a classic for its literary merits. It has a special place in the cannibalism canon as well.
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Cannibalism
Classic
Heart
Sea
Taken
Heart Place Special
Literary
Merits
Rightfully
Special Place
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While researching the book, I used the Freedom of Information Act to request what the military calls Individual Deceased Personnel Files for all the Gremlin Special's passengers and crew.
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Crew
Deceased
Files
Information
Military
Passengers
Personnel
Request
Calls
Gremlin
Researching
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The combination of Ponzi's huge personality and the enormous if brief success of his scheme, combined with the tremendous publicity which surrounded it, is ultimately what attached his name to it.
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Combination
Enormous
Publicity
Attached
Brief
Tremendous
Scheme
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Most travel disasters turn into something else: a story of survival, a story of bravery, of heroism, sometimes villainy. You just don't know when it starts where it's going to go because they are unexpected events.
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Bravery
Heroism
Survival
Unexpected
Villainy
Disasters
Something Else
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Fear is something i don't you experience unless you have a choice. If you have a choice, you're liable to be afraid. But without a choice, what is there to be afraid of? You just go along and do what has to be done.
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Fear
Choices
Done
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My favorite pre-Ponzi schemer was known as '520 Percent Miller' because he promised 10 percent returns a week, or 520 percent a year. Of course he was just using new investors' money to pay old investors, and soon he was on the lam.
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Investors
Pay
Return
Years
Miller
Promised
Returns
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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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Friendship
Descendants
Dozen
Treasured
Earl
Gremlin
Remained
Survivors
Valley
Victims
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I wanted to talk face-to-face with as many people as would see me. Some actors were so busy they could only give me an hour on the phone. But my feeling is that if you're actually in the room with them, they get comfortable and you get more.
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Busy
Comfortable
Face To Face
Give Me
Me People See
Phone
Hour
Room
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This is not a documentary. Are there essential truths that are captured by this movie? I think unquestionably the answer is yes. Do you have to change certain things to make it work? The book is called '13 Hours'; the movie is two hours long.
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Captured
Certain Things
Documentary
Truths
Unquestionably
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For starters, let's dispense with the cheap jokes about cannibalism. That means cracks about giving an arm and a leg - sorry - for a good book on the subject, or similar tasteless - sorry, again - attempts to make the subject more palatable - last one.
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Book
Cannibalism
Cracks
Good Book
Mean
Sorry
Starters
Arm
Attempts
Cheap
Dispense
Leg
Similar
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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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Brain
Mark
Miss
Be True
Side
Con
Tap
Getting
Fundamental
Tip
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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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Benghazi
Department
Facility
Time History Will
Exactly The Same
Mission
Lightly
Promised
Repeat
State Department
Tends
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I was researching a different World War II story when I came across an article in the 'Chicago Tribune' from June 1945 that knocked me for a loop. The article explained that a military plane had crashed in an impossibly remote valley of New Guinea that had been nicknamed Shangri-La.
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War
Chicago
Guinea
June
Military
World War Ii
War World Me
Article
Crashed
Different World
Explained
Loop
Plane
Remote
Researching
Valley
World War
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There is an interesting parallel between the 'Argo' story and '13 Hours' in that, around the world, we have 285 or so diplomatic outposts and the expectation that the local government will come to our aid if we ever come under attack on the sovereign property of the United States in an embassy.
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Embassy
Local Government
Sovereign
Government World Will
Aid
Attack
Expectation
Parallel
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Acting on the theory that sometimes luck is better than work, I randomly called several people named Dattilo in Kentucky. All were unfailingly polite, and none knew anything about a major with their last name who died in World War II. I also discovered that more Dattilos lived in Kentucky than I would have imagined.
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Luck
World War Ii
Named
War Work World
Randomly
World War
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When running a Ponzi scheme, how does one avoid enormous, unexpected withdrawals - runs on the bank, so to speak - that would pull back the curtain and reveal a little man blowing smoke? One way would be to attract a core of investors who could be counted on to never withdraw more than a small percentage of principal each year.
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Running
Men
Core
Enormous
Investors
Little Man
Principal
Speak
Unexpected
Years
Attract
Avoid
Bank
Blowing
Counted
Curtain
Each Year
Scheme
Small
Percentage
Pull
Reveal
Runs
Withdraw
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I know that plenty of folks have issues with Social Security, but I'd urge them to confront it on its own terms. Calling it a Ponzi scheme is misleading and does more to cloud the issue than it does to illuminate it. And yes, I do know that unless changes are made, the current system is unsustainable. But that doesn't mean it's fraud.
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Clouds
Fraud
Issues
Mean
Plenty
Social Security
Cloud
Confront
Current
Scheme
Illuminate
Misleading
Unsustainable
Urge
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