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re: A bit more on why Bush is going to win.

Sallust's description of Rome in 80 B.C.—a government controlled by wealth, a ruling-class numb to the repetitions of political scandal, a public diverted by chariot races and gladiatorial shows—stands as a fair summary of some of our own circumstances....

—Lewis Lapham,
Waiting for the Barbarians

Arf

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