And so, in a cruel twist, a country that has long sought redress for the past abduction of a few dozen citizens by the North Korean state tacitly supports vast numbers of abductions each year at home.

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"Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers, " by architect Witold Rybczynski and landscape architect Laurie Olin, is one of a number of popular and scholarly histories that in the past two decades have sought to redress this ideological imbalance.

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In fact, three of the worst 10-year periods of real returns have come in the past six months, a record that practically begs for statistical redress.

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