Covert

There are several types of covert investigations. Some depend on a person who does not appear to be an interrogator teasing information from the subject while he's unaware that he's being questioned.

One is the fake employment candidate. During interviews, candidates wait in an anteroom to be called. One returns from the 'interview,' sits down next to another and says: 'Boy, that was rough! They asked me if I used drugs.I didn't admit anything. Are you going to tell them?'...

Another type of covert interrogator is the fake friend or sympathizer. The person, who may be an acquaintance, fellow employee, or neighbor, sidles up to you and tries to get you to reveal information useful to the investigation. By pretending sympathy, this type of interrogator can break down the barriers that people normally have, and obtain damaging information.

The undercover cellmate is another variant on the theme. A police officer poses as a suspect, and gets to share a cell with you. Like the genuine criminal cellmate who trades information for deals, the undercover officer will pump you for information. The chances of this happening in the future are greater, now that a court decision (Illinois vs. Perkins) had ruled that it's not necessary for an undercover police officer to give a suspect a 'Miranda' warning under such circumstances. The decision went on to explain that, although 'Miranda' prohibits coercion, it allows deceiving a suspect by use of a fake prisoner. The suspect is not protected against the consequences of boasting about his crimes to people he thinks are fellow felons."

This is what Jack said.

Students

"Students come to understand that much of the 'knowledge' that they are required to be exposed to and 'learn' will be shortly forgotten,and they often think that much of what is presented will have little use to them either now or in the future...

And then when they are caught cheating, they almost inevitably hear that all toooften repeated charge that- 'Well, you realize that the only one you are cheatingis yourself.' They know full well that if they do not remember or know the Spanish grammar, or the algebra equation, that this will probably hav every little(if any) effect on their later work and lives. They have had just enough experienceto allow them to come to the conclusion that most of what one 'learns' (memorizes)in school, no matter how important this might seem to be, is shortly forgotten anyhow,and that they can always look it up if they need this information at a later time,provided they have learned how to do this.

Students, recognizing the good grade and diploma are what is really valuable to them, will often not hesitate to cheat in order to obtain those 'primary 'goods'which the teachers and schools are really selling."

This is what Thomas said.

County

"Perhaps your mother was the sort who raised you by the old adage, 'If you can't say something nice about someone, then don't say anything at all.'Mine was.

But...say something nice about cops?

It's difficult to say anything even coldly polite about the slinking spies andtrigger-happy thugs who make up the police force. I shall not. Accept this guarantee:the policeman is not your friend.

Neither is your county sheriff your friend. Neverthless, I shall endeavor to saysomething, if not nice, at least polite about the sheriff. For the sheriff is the most tolerable of an intolerable bunch. If in this imperfect world, we must endure police, let us leave the limited police power we allow at the level and in the office of county sheriffs.

The sheriff is both less intrustive and less odious than the fed because the sheriff has roots. He is part of the county over which he presiides...The sheriff wants to be reelected...."the office of sheriff is an ancient one, with roots in Anglo-Sacon tribes. Hence, it is a link to the organic tradition of freehodlders, the common law, and militias...Still, sheriffs are ultimately cops. Therefore, not all sheriffs are good. They never have been. Remember the Sheriff of Nottingham?"

This is what Ned said.

Among

"Among the ancient Mexicans, Peruvians, and some of the Indian tribes of North and South America were found fragments of the Eden Myth. The Mexicans said that the primeval mother was made out of a man's bone, and that she was the mother of twins.

The Cherokees supposed that heavenly beings came down and made the world, after which they made a man and a woman of clay. The intention of the creators was that men should live always. But the Sun, when he passed over, told them that there was not land enough, and that people had better die. At length, the daughter of the Sun was bitten by a Snake, and died....

The inhabitants of the New World had a legend of a Deluge, which destroyed the human race, excepting a few who were saved in a boat, which landed on a mountain. They also related that birds were sent out of the ark, for the purpose of ascertaining if the flood was abating.

The ancient Mexicans had the legend of the confusion of tongues, and related the whole story as to how the gods destroyed the tower which mankind was building so as to reach unto heavens.The Mexicans, and several of the Indian tribes of North America, believed in the doctrine of Metmpsychosis, or the transfiguration of souls from one body into another. This, as we have already seen, was universally believed in the Old World."

This is what Thomas said.

Challenge

If a man's so worried about rejected, why does he like a hard to get woman? There's a difference between hard to get and impossible to get. A hard-to-get woman is a challenge. An impossible-to-get woman is a rejection. If he has the feeling that with you, there's no way, he's not likely to hang around for long. But if underneath your 'no,' there's a 'yes' struggling to get out, he may find that a big turn on. Breaking down your resistance can give him a sense of power and importance. It feels good to know that he's irrestible.

But however much a man wants to know that he counts, he doesn't want to count so much that he becomes responsible for you. Being hard to get not only gives him the feeling that you're worth something. It also gives him the feeling that you can take care of yourself. And that's important. If you can take care of yourself, he won't have to worry about getting 'stuck.' He can get involved with you, change his mind, and get the hell out without feeling he's leaving you bloodied by the side of the road. Most men do not want to hurt you. Most men, in fact, are so worried about hurting a woman that they go to great lengths to avoid doing so. Which is why if you appear helpless and vulnerable, you're likely to find men staying away in droves."

That is what James and Peyton said.

Learned

"She had learned that she had something precious and that she had to take care of it, protect it. She feared her sexuality. Wasn't it what made talking to strange men dangerous, and letting a boy 'go too far' bad? If she wasn't careful, she knew a boy (only after one thing) would yank this precious thing away from her and then mock her allowing him to do so. Those fears were real. Boys would and did, as she saw when the desperate to be accepted girl went too far got laughed at, snicked about, an "easy lay.' There were clearly only two kinds of women: ladies and sluts. Nothing in between, and she couldn't be too careful.

Romance. Clark Gable would carry her up in a red-carpeted staircase. Burt Lancaster would ravage her on the beach The beautiful boy is the senior class with the white teeth and the coopery tan skin would fall hopelessly in love with her, and take her into a daisy stream meadow where his mouth would melt into hers and she would tumble gracefully from virginity to nonvirginity without a latch. There was no nervous fumbling in back seats, no guilty pawning or living room sofas in her image of what 'it' making love would be like."

Sophia Loren said: "Sex appeal is 50 percent what you've got and 50 percent what people think you've got."

This is what another person said.

Boyer

"The term 'Gaslighting' comes from the 1944 movie, Gaslight, starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, and Joseph Cotten. In the movie, Charles Boyer tries to convince his wife that she's going insane by contriving incidents designated to make it appear as if she's forgetful, disoriented, and confused. As Ingrid Bergman played a Victorian housewife, Boyer's evil character had total control over her environment, and was able to use the force of his personality to convince Bergman that she had inherited bad genes from her mother, who had died insane .In that limited Victorian environment, without telephone, radio, television, and E-Mail, the techniques available were very few. Boyer hid some of her possessions, to make it appear that Bergman was becoming acutely forgetful. Rooms lighting was by gas, which provided an opportunity for devious mind-damaging. Boyer would sneak into the attic, for example, to rummage among the goods stored in it, and turn on the gaslight, which would cause the pressure to drop in the bedroom below. Ingrid Bergman became so psyched out that she thought she was imagining the dimming of the light in her room." "Surprise is an essential element....well under way..." This is what Victor said.