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Like everybody else, we have been transfixed by the war-crimes tribunal that is weighing the fate of former Liberian strongman Charles Taylor. OK … that was a nice opening line, but actually, we don’t know anyone who is “transfixed,” and few who are following it, closely anyway. But the tribunal grinds on and actually it is probably one of the more significant events of the 21st century because it is setting a good many precedents having to do with the imposition of yet another layer of