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I see that Glavin is in Afghanistan. Good for him.
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I’ve just read the chapter on Sarmiento and Alberdi in Oscar Terán’s enormously instructive Historia de las ideas en la Argentina. Can anyone doubt what course of action Sarmiento would have recommended in Afghanistan? Can anyone doubt whether he’d have been willing to get his own hands dirty if necessary?
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Terán died in March this year and I found out from a mail that a friend forwarded to me. When I received it I was in the newsroom of a national newspaper. Nobody there had heard of him.
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