Like the architect Robert Venturi, they're cultural plunderers, mix 'n' matchers, thrift store assemblers and meta-narrative dissemblers.

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To many in Colombia and Peru, this is yet another story of robbers robbing robbers, plunderers plundering the plunder of other plunderers.

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Plunderers have profited from the chaos, arriving in Apamea with heavy digging equipment and absconding with priceless Roman mosaics and column capitals.

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To take a more recent example, Arundhati Roy, India's Booker-prize novelist, not long ago wrote a long and impassioned article in one of India's weekly magazines portraying capitalists, especially foreign ones, as plunderers.

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Misbah's calmness extends to his batting, and the accumulative style he characterizes has come to dominate the current line-up, giving it a solidity quite at odds with the stereotype of Pakistani batsmen as risk-taking run-plunderers whose strokeplay is as impetuous as it is thrilling.

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