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RAND Corporation Provides Objective Research Services and Public. - SIPRI Internet. Inside Russia and Eurasia - home. EU-Russia Relations. Interfax.com. Foreign Policy: The 10 Worst Predictions for 2008. 1 Scott Gries/Getty Images If [Hillary Clinton] gets a race against John Edwards and Barack Obama, shes going to be the nominee. Gore is the only threat to her, then. Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. Ill predict that right now. William Kristol, Fox News Sunday, Dec. 17, 2006 Weekly Standard editor and New York Times columnist William Kristol was hardly alone in thinking that the Democratic primary was Clintons to lose, but it takes a special kind of self-confidence to make a declaration this sweeping more than a year before the first Iowa caucus was held.
After Iowa, Kristol lurched to the other extreme, declaring that Clinton would lose New Hampshire and that There will be no Clinton Restoration. Peter writes: Should I be worried about Bear Stearns in terms of liquidity and get my money out of there? Hopefully, Peter got a second opinion. 3 ERIC CABANIS/Getty Images 4 Spencer Platt/Getty Images 5 YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images The U.S. International Relations and Security Network ISN.