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2Sep2008

1. Foreign policy wunderkind Paul Staniland on the coming regime instability in Pakistan

2. Nigerian man to divorce 82 wives — keeping 4

3. A good suggestion for book publishers

4. I have a soft spot for dancing Matt

5. Peter Leeson gives up pirates for aliens

6. Vladimir Putin, heroic tiger conquest edition

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    Putin was showing the effete Westerners the power of Russian manliness. http://notnews.today.com/?p=55

    Palin would have shot the tiger with a 12-bore, then ripped out and eaten its still-beating heart with a giggle.

    Obama would have smiled a dazzling smile and the tiger would have stopped in its tracks and slunk off slightly ashamed.

    Gordon Brown would have tried boring it to death before throwing David Miliband out the Land Rover at it.

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Chris Blattman

I’m an Assistant Professor of Political Science & Economics at Yale. I use field work and statistics to study poverty, political participation, the causes and consequences of violence, and policy in developing countries. [Read more]

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