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The real expulsion from Paradise comes only if the sanctity of play is profaned, if the spell is broken: by players falling out of their angelic roles and starting a fight in the field; by a cheating referee; by people realizing that a match is rigged; by spectators invading the field.

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The following is a time line of treaties made, treaties broken and massacres disguised as battles.

As removed as we, the dominant society, may feel from a massacre in 1890, or a series of broken treaties 150 years ago, I still have to ask you the question: How should you feel about the statistics of today?

It was a court only for veterans who had broken the law.

So this is a 12-bar blues, and I've broken it down into four-bar groups, so you would know how you would trade.

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