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From the ground up: New York after 9/11

The Intelligence from The Economist

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The Male Kinship Group

The most important thing, as far as they're concerned, that a woman can do is provide a male heir. The overriding principle that you have to defend members of your own clan leads to unending feuds. And if you translate that kind of mentality into the state, you have completely this functional government.

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