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d more of evils?
Who views the wide realm from this height supreme,
To him all seems like an oppressive dream,
Where in confusion is confusion reigning,
And lawlessness by law itself maintaining,
A world of error forever obtaining.
-- Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
benders. by Mike Duncan. Copyright 1993.
In the barren front room of a Houston office they'd rented under a false
name, three sixteen-year-old boys sat huddled around a computer terminal,
busy stealing ten thousand dollars a day, the full limit of what Mentat
Security had authorized. Their plan, also approved and certified by the
Foundation as a potentially dangerous extracurricular activity, involved
shuffling borrowed money from one account to another in large amounts and in
a way that took advantage of the timing of electronic bank transfers. The
actual mechanics of the operation were terri
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