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Pity Michael Bloomberg. For all his billions, and all his power as mayor of New York (for which office he recently bought himself the chance to seek a third term), there is one place in the city where he cannot indulge his greatest pleasure--running other people's lives.(Brief article)

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Pity Michael Bloomberg. For all his billions, and all his power as mayor of New York (for which office he recently bought himself the chance to seek a third term), there is one place in the city where he cannot indulge his greatest pleasure--running other people's lives. That place is the headquarters of the United Nations, where New York's anti-smoking laws hold no sway and transnational bureaucrats from Tajikistan and Lesotho can puff away to their hearts' content (and their lungs' peril). It's not often that the U.N. does something right, though this ...

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