If you support the Kool-Aid mass suicide cult of prohibition, and erroneously believe that you can win a war without logic and practical solutions, then prepare yourself for even more death, tortured corpses, corruption, terrorism, sickness, imprisonment, economic tribulation, unemployment and the complete loss of the rule of law.

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Some of this is the times and our present expectation that any tribulation, no matter how horrific or unfair, be quickly glossed over as a hunky-dory learning experience.

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Into this crisis comes the weary Theo (Clive Owen), who is asked by an old girlfriend (Julianne Moore) to guide the expectant mother to freedom through a landscape of tribulation and trial.

NEWYORKER: Children of Men

The text has been sliced and pared, and what remains is intimate and sorrowful, as if the characters knew from the start what manner of tribulation they would face.

NEWYORKER: The Merchant of Venice

Watching Dick Clark on TV is how most revelers in the U.S. spend New Year's Eve, which is why Hollywood is intrigued that on Dec. 31, 250, 000 people gathered in hundreds of theaters and churches to take in an alternative, the movie Left Behind II: Tribulation Force.

FORBES: On a script and a prayer

Their stories of triumph and tribulation have been chronicled as cover stories in FORBES ASIA in the past year, including features on Li Ka-shing, Steve Wynn, Teresita Sy-Coson, Simon and Eleanor Kwok, Vincent Tan, Shyam and Hari Bhartia, as well as Morris Chang, the FORBES ASIA Businessman of the Year in 2012.

FORBES: A Message From FORBES ASIA Publisher William Adamopoulos

Despite trial and tribulation Gandhi never gave up his belief in truth, humility, and non-violence on the path to freedom.

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