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In the last two years, more than 15 of the market's traders have been kidnapped. One businessman says that corrupt government officials and the Afghan security services often collude in these crimes. -- "Afghanistan's kidnapping industry", New York Times, September 16, 2008
After he had been condemned to death on the trumped up charges of corrupting the youth of Athens and failing to revere the local gods, Socrates began to ruminate on the afterlife before an audience of his judges. -- "How to Make It in the Afterlife", New York Times, June 23, 2009
