Keeping up with the pack is the ante to play, but dooms you to stay in the middle of the herd.

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Sometimes they happen because the science doesn't pan out as expected, but management of the alliance also dooms them at times.

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The fact is newsstand sales are not going to be what turns around Newsweek, nor are they going to be what dooms its turnaround.

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Even worse than that, Netanyahu's willingness to negotiate with the US on the basis of a plan that rejects the Jewish people's right to the land of Israel confuses Israel's friends and so dooms their defenses of Israel to failure.

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