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Anita L. Allen (Penn): An Ethical Duty to Protect One's Own Information Privacy? From The Washington Monthly, why are U.S. Border Patrol agents shooting into Mexico and killing innocent civilians? John Carlos Frey investigates. A trip to Japan in sixteen minutes: In 1944, the self-imposed exile Sadakichi Hartmann died dreaming of the perfume concert that failed to take him home. Will a tattoo ever hang in the Louvre? Meet the unconventional art historians trying to discover what it means for an image to be marked on the body. Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher, kindred spirits: Michael Kimmage reviews Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl. I am not a Zizek tote bag: Alice Bell on branding and the abstraction of social life. North Carolina needed 6,500 farm workers — only 7 Americans stuck it out.