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A Modest Proposal

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Aug 11, 2011
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What if the region’s governments closed up shop, perhaps confining themselves to flag-raising on national days or ribbon cutting at shopping mall grand openings? Would anyone notice?

That sobering thought occurred the other day when a senior politician in Indonesia, in the midst of a discussion of corruption and general governmental malaise, said: “We ha…

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