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style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=3>Overblown: How
Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and
Why We Believe Them<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></I></B></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'">The <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">MIT Center for International Studies’ Starr
Forum</B> is a public event series sponsored by the Starr Foundation of New
York. We bring to the MIT campus leading academics, policy makers and
journalists to discuss pressing issues in the world of international relations
and </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'"> foreign
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Annie Abbondante<BR>MIT Center for International
Studies,<BR>Program on Emerging Technologies<BR>Massachusetts Institute of
Technology<BR>292 Main Street, E38-270<BR>Cambridge, MA 02139<BR>Tel:
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