If Kony attracted supporters through his "mystical powers" and charisma, he kept them through fear.

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Computers have retrieved the mythologizing of numbers, attribution of mystical powers to mathematics, and cultivation of esoteric knowledge.

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This result will astonish the motley crew of economists, policy makers, central bankers, U.S. Congressmen, American labor leaders, journalists, trade lawyers, Japanese prime ministers and others who ascribe mystical powers to exchange rates.

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More than 80 years ago, another adventurer came to these jungles, looking for lost cities, buried treasure and mystical ancient objects with strange powers.

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