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The problem is that we are as likely to get bad measures – like the recently abandoned US attempt to enact anti-piracy laws that would have fostered wholesale Web site closures – as we are to get a freer Internet.

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It began carrying, among other things, large numbers of hunters, who began the wholesale killing of buffalo, eliminating a source of food, clothing and shelter for the Sioux.

I work in the fashion industry on the wholesale side, and I started to see some of the products that we sell end up on the racks of these thrift stores.

Here is an example from an op-ed on Thanksgiving, in the Boston Globe a couple of years ago, where the writer wrote, "The Indian life was a difficult one, but there were no employment problems, community harmony was strong, substance abuse unknown, crime nearly non-existent, what warfare there was between tribes was largely ritualistic and seldom resulted in indiscriminate or wholesale slaughter."

Of course, you can't copy and paste education systems wholesale, but these comparisons have identified a range of factors that high-performing systems share.

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