Psychologically, the price of self-neglect can be particularly high.

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Self-punishing neglect of the region if Plan Colombia is not renewed and the FTA with Colombia not ratified.

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Conlon Nancarrow, an American of the previous generation now recognised as a great original, was harassed enough for his communism to choose self-exile and relative neglect in Mexico.

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Most of the coalition's problems have had less to do with its complexion than its occasional bouts of incompetence: Mr Cameron's self-confidence has sometimes tipped into insouciance and neglect of detail, as in a botched proposal to privatise forests and, more importantly, the well-intentioned but chaotic bid to make the National Health Service more efficient.

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