If you want to understand what is happening there, imagine: Under the Liberty Tree that stood in Boston Common, early in the first American Revolution, any and all could come to air their grievances and hammer out solutions collectively, and it was there the promise of American democracy first took root.

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Then I walked back along that row of mirrors, swinging the hammer and sending bright spikes of glass into the summer air.

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Hell, thought Mike Hammer, he could have flown back to Newark on Hooters Air, with two beautiful Hooters girls attending to make sure his seatbelt was securely fastened.

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