It is hard to come up with another example of a policy that has failed so often and so violently that has enjoyed the support of both American political parties.

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Some of the women shook their heads so violently that their hair came free and whipped through the air, three feet long.

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Only a few years earlier it had erupted so violently that thousands of people had been buried alive or sucked into sudden crevices.

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