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-OpEd- BOGOTA — In late March, the Colombian pop star Shakira was on a media tour in New York City to promote Las mujeres ya no lloran (“Women No Longer Cry”), her first album in seven years: on March 25, she performed a free concert in Times Square for some 40,000 fans. The next day, she was on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, where the host asked her where her howl originally come from. “From my gut,” she said, laughing before adding pensively, “wolves howl not only when they’re in pain, when they’re in danger [but also] as a way to communicate and to connect with their pack. And that’s h…

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