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"As much as anything, I think the videos saved me. The prosecution edited them, but we showed the wholething. It was plain that Ender was not the provocateur. After that, it was just a second-guessing game. I said I didwhat I believed was necessary for the preservation of the human race, and it worked; we got the judges to agreethat the prosecution had to prove beyond doubt that Ender would have won the war without the training we gavehim. After that, it was simple. The exigencies of war.""Anyway, Graff, it was a great relief to us. I know we quarreled, and I know the prosecution used tapes of ourconversations against you. But by then I knew that you were right, and I offered to testify for you.""I know, Anderson. My lawyers told me.""So what will you do now?""I don't know. Still relaxing. I have a few years of leave accrued. Enough to take me to retirement, and I haveplenty of salary that I never used, sitting around in banks. I could live on the interest. Maybe I'll do nothing.""It sounds nice. But I couldn't stand it. I've been offered the presidency of three different universities, on thetheory that I'm an educator. They don't believe me when I say that all I ever cared about at the Battle School wasthe game. I think I'll go with the other offer.""Commissioner?""Now that the wars are over, it's time to play games again. It'll be almost like vacation, anyway. Only twentyeightteams in the league. Though after years of watching those children flying, football is like watching slugsbash into each other."They laughed. Graff sighed and pusned the raft with his foot."That raft. Surely you can't float on it."第 320 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网