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          <body><![CDATA[Spoken like a true academic Deb; you are a 7 percenter!  As televangelists, politicians and some pop-business writers know well, if you state a position with enough authority and conviction, the truth is pretty much irrelevant because 93% of Americans (and 82% of non-Americans) will believe you!  &lt;-- and that exclamation point tells you to take those numbers on faith because I stated them with authority and conviction! &lt;-- there I go again ;-)]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[Kester,<br/>This is the first Ken Follett novel I ever read, maybe 12 or 15 years ago.  I remember liking it very much because of the historical context.  It surely was very good but not brilliant.  Shortly after finishing I read another of his novels - one about a doctor without boarders who was working in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation - it was VERY disappointing compared to this work but it did teach me something about how to engage in kinky sex on a hard-scrabble Afghani hillside.]]></body>
        
    
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