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Jagdish Bhagwati reflects on a combative career

By DAVID GLENN

New York City

In theory, Jagdish N. Bhagwati is spending a peaceful semester away from teaching and public life. He's ensconced in a quiet, spare office at the Council on Foreign Relations, working on a book about global institutions, trying to avoid distractions.

But on the morning of March 6, Mr. Bhagwati's telephone...

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