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yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 1/6/2009

The Think Tank Industrial Complex

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Steven Walt says : Here’s why it won’t happen any time soon. As Cindy Williams , former director of the National Security division of the Congressional Budget Office and now a senior research scientist at MIT, points out in an as-yet unpublished paper for the Tobin Project , ...

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