Its emphasis has often shifted to domestic, less expensive, somewhat wonkier topics, like opposition to gun control; columns like the " Slick Willie Watch "; open-seas piracy; and warnings of Vietnam-like quagmires ( " Colombia Burning : The Dark Future of Narco-Wars " ).
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"Harmonization of . . . laws will spread the risks that criminal organizations have to confront, and provide fewer safe havens " for transnational organized crime organizations, Chor said in an opening speech at the conference aimed at fighting sea piracy, gun smuggling, drug trafficking, illegal immigration and other cross-border crimes.
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In other reviews of the same collection, Mark Reinsberg wrote that " De Camp's style is adroit and witty as he develops science-fiction take-offs on themes like sea piracy, head hunters, the wild west, and jousting knight-hood, " and noted that " [ t ] he tales are spiced with glamorous other worldly women . " He also rated it " [ p ] robably the most entertaining collection of'tomorrow tales'by an individual author " published in 1953, whose " yarns kept the reader laughing over space pioneering in the 22d century and a marvelous pair of interstellar swindlers named Koshay and Borel . " " The English Journal " stated that " [ f ] or fantasy, irony, and imagination these stories are remarkable . " The " Los Angeles Times " noted that in postulating the rise of Brazil as a world power, de Camp " develops an interesting and not too improbable theme ."
