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Teen Pirates

This morning's news is filled with what you might call sniper porn: the details of how careful breathing and quiet signals, maybe even stabilizing, gyroscopes helped to put bullets into three pirate heads.

But the revelation that the slain pirates were only teenagers makes it all feel rather less glamorous. Even if it still had to be done.

--Michael Crowley