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Lisa Hajjar on Fighting Guantanamo: How Hundreds of Lawyers Successfully Challenged the Illegal Treatment of Prisoners Captured in the American War on Terror
Chris Miller on Why the Most Powerful Thing in the World Is Computer Chip Technology
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