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Many Consider Government the Biggest Predator of All

Regarding Thomas Frank's "Health Care and the 'Predator State'" (The Tilting Yard, Oct. 7): Were William Safire alive today, he could inform Mr. Frank that the word predator predates James K. Galbraith's book "The Predator State," and that Sens. Full Article at Wall Street Journal

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