The wider point here is that Blatter's tenure as FIFA president has been internationalist in tooth and claw.

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But they have managed it: even to the point of convincing me, a neoliberal who believes very strongly in capitalism red in tooth and claw.

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The message - that capitalism, unfettered, red in tooth and claw, is always inherently good - may be the creed, but that doesn't mean it is the easiest sell in these times of resentment against Wall Street and the establishment.

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It is indeed an irony that, in the area of tropical disease, the wicked drug firms have discovered the value of not-for-profit business at precisely the point when governments are contemplating the idea that the best way forward is the use of incentives more attuned to red-in-tooth-and-claw capitalism.

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