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GAME ON

Twenty years ago, Macau was the kind of place that made Bugsy Siegel’s Las Vegas look squeaky clean. In the spring of 1998, a beefy prosecutor and police chief named Antonio Marques Baptista was tasked with cracking down on the Portuguese colony’s crime lords. People called Baptista “Rambo.” After his dog managed to sniff out a bomb that had been planted in his car, Rambo went after

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