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CRITIC AT LARGE

Violating 'Sovereignty': Questioning a Concept's Long Reign

By CARLIN ROMANO

Everywhere the S-word wreaks havoc. Iraqi terrorists kill hundreds of Americans and Iraqis to protest infringement of sovereignty by the Great Satan. Africans massacre other Africans because European-imposed "sovereign" borders clash with tribal allegiances.

Serbs and Albanians, Irish and British, Indians and Pakistanis,...

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