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A lesson from Singapore

25 year old Nguyen Van Tuong will soon hang for smuggling drugs to Australia and making the mistake of routing his flight through Singapore (he should have used Travelocity). TalkLeft has been covering this well, including the strange story of the Singapore hangman. Over at Crooked Timber, Brian Weatherson questioned Singapore’s justification for hanging and […]

Interesting developments in Bolivia

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Mr. [Evo] Morales, a onetime leader of the coca growers federation, has steadily become revered by the left around Latin America as an unbending opponent of globalization. That is worrisome enough to the Bush administration. But more alarming to American officials is that a man who promotes coca farming — an industry central to […]

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