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| | Porphyrogenitus: June 29, 2003 - July 05, 2003 Archives |
 | | The first half is intellectually incoherent (the situation in Liberia poses less serious a threat to the world as a whole than the situation in Iraq did; likewise, Saddam Hussein's government was as much of a humanitarian catastrophe, if not more, than that of Charles Taylor's in Liberia). |
 | | So what happens is, twenty years down the line people look back and they wonder why the development of new life-saving drugs has slowed to a crawl compared to earlier, compared with, say, the mid-20th Century. |
 | | One by one, the stars of the golden age of the silver screen fall from the firmament. |
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