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TWO FUTURES? Privacy, piracy, security, sovereignty—the divisions on these issues reflect an even deeper split between those who want tight control and those who want unfettered freedom.
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While I was in Portugal, I received the following e-mail from my assistant in Hickory Valley:
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Would legalization disrupt the economics of the Prison Industrial Complex and its pool of slave laborers?
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