May we all, in the words of Al Smith, do our full duty as citizens.

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You have to go back to the 1920s, when stolid Herbert Hoover beat jaunty Al Smith, to find this rule violated--and there have been very few other exceptions.

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It was the annual Al Smith Dinner in New York.

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It really needs more world leaders named Al Smith.

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"More than a majority in Anbar Province area have morally and physically rejected al Qaeda, " Smith reported in a conference call on October 31.

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"We have to pound the ball in there to Al and Smooth (Smith) and when we get the opportunity to get in the lane try to make plays, " Teague said when asked what the Hawks must do better.

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As in Turkey, the West will be forced to do hard things like develop a policy of containing rather than engaging Egypt, and of identifying and cultivating forces in Egyptian society that are willing to embrace John Locke, John Stuart Mill and Adam Smith over Hassan al-Banna and Qaradawi.

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Smith added 20 and Al Horford had 16.

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If you believe in the benefits of energy innovation, support national security or consider climate change to be a non-negligible threat to our planet, you need to stop listening to Al Gore and start reading Adam Smith.

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"Muqtada al-Sadr has ordered his followers to support the Iraqi government, " Smith noted.

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