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21 August, 2007
Government control over reincarnation?
WTF news of the day:
“China bans Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission.”
If this had happened in Hayek’s time, he might have written Fatal Delusion instead of Fatal Conceit. Immense amusement explodes, even as I wonder how the Chinese government will catch transgressors.
Also see: Scott Adams’s hilarious post on it.
(Link via email from Kartik Varadpande.)
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#106 - Generalissimo 76
Sample clues
9 across: Van Morrison classic from Moondance (7)
6 down: Order beginning with ‘A’ (12)
