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will prove to have been a positive decision, saying that it will be ultimately "beneficial to the war of ideas in the sense that a functioning democracy that we hope will be stable and prosperous now exists in the Middle East, and is showing other nations and other people what a democracy looks
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as the undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs. He served in the position from June 2008 to
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was unfit to serve another term, and "To that end, we are firmly convinced that it is in the best interest of our nation that Vice
President Joe Biden be elected as the next President of the United States, and we will vote for him."
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with a B.A. in government in 1969. He is married to Beth
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described the book as "charlatanic" and suggested on empirical grounds that the authors had failed to notice that at the time of writing stock prices were "as overvalued as at literally any time in American history".
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with mutual funds these days, I have to address the issue of whether stocks are overvalued. Glassman and Hassett's theories make the solid case that, on average, they are not."
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