From: To: Bce: Subject: Date: Attachments: Inline-Images: Gregory Brown undisclosed-recipients:; [email protected] Greg Brown's Weekend Reading and Other Things.... 12/15/2013 Sun, 15 Dec 2013 08:58:57 +0000 The Appalling_Stance of Rand Paul Charles Blow TWP December 11„2013.docx; At feast 194 Children_ Have_ ifeen_§hot_to_beathlince:Newtown Iviark Follman Mot _ _ _ her_Jone,s December_1 ,_201 .docx; The Year After Newtown Joe Nocera NYT December 13, 2013.docx; ,2013.docx; Criminal_Action_Is_Expected_for_JPMorgan_in_Madoff_Case_NYT December 12,_2013. _docx• MIE_Morgan's_Settlement Sits in Histor_y_ofCorporate_Fines_WSLOctober_19, 2013.docx; 10 Biggest_White- eollar_Crime,s_in_History_Business_Pundit_December_14„2009.docx image.png; image(1).png; image(2).png; image(3).png; image(4).png DEAR FRIEND Truly one of the most important pictures of the year: Inspiring The Remarkable ;;;Inline image 1 I was shocked when I received several comments minimizing Nelson Mandela's contributions and somehow suggesting that his "socialist" policies and cozy relationships with Robert Mugabe and Muammar Gaddafi somehow delegitimized his credentials as a democratic leader and that he was convicted of a terrorist act, made him some sort of a bin Laden. When I was growing up in "street slang"these people are player-haters, or people who sit on the side denigrating something that they themselves can't do. As Deputy White House Counsel during the early days of President Bill Clinton's administration, Vince Foster wrote in his suicide note, " ruining people is considered sport."And believing that your god only speaks to you leaves little doubt that the fault might be yours, or someone else's idea superior. And why was there such outrage because of this one handshake, when Nixon's shining signature accomplishment was opening up China and Reagan was working with Gorbachev to bring down the Iron Curtain. Every journey starts with a first step and if e