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44m32s Adios, ADOS? (But DOAS is DOA.) 46m27s Cocaine hippos. (The new peril from the south.) 48m32s Signoff. (More Flanders & Swann.) 02 Playing both sides. In last week s podcast I exulted over a story I d read in my breakfast New York Post about movie actor Armie Hammer and his cannibalistic fantasies. The cause of my exultation was, I told you, seeing so much newsprint the newspaper s whole front cover and two full inside pages given over to a story that had nothing to do with politics. I then vented about how thoroughly sick of politics I was. I still am. However, several listeners emailed in to point out that the Armie Hammer story was not as free from politics as I d thought. Hammer, they told me, is the great-grandson of tycoon Armand Hammer, one of the most curious figures in 20th-century American capitalism. ....