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" Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day. "
Elliott Abrams
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" First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes. "
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" In Jordan, where the prime minister is always a commoner, the king has announced some new reforms that would tend to move the country toward a more democratic system: Notably, the prime minister would emerge from the victorious political party, not from back room conversations in the royal palace. "
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" U.S.-Israel relations are often depicted as an extended honeymoon, but that's a false image. "
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" Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require. "
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" The early reviews of Dick Cheney's memoir have not evaluated the book, but instead have used its publication as an occasion for attacks on Cheney and his record, with general assaults on George W. Bush's administration thrown in for good measure. "
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" Bahai Iranians are barred from holding government jobs, their children are excluded from the nation's university system, their marriages are not recognized and their cemeteries and holy places have been desecrated. It is government policy to incite hatred of Bahais in the official media. "
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