Yet the Bush administration recently, and for the first time, dispatched a diplomat to join multi-party talks with Iran over its alleged nuclear weapon ambitions.

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Jason Furman, Principal Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, will join the multi-person video chat live from the White House.

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This means that before you join a multi-level marketing organization network, you must ask a simple question: Am I prepared to build a business?

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Should they join a multi-state exchange?

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Only one of them may actually join it: Zlatko Lagumdzija, head of the Social Democratic Party, which is nominally multi-ethnic but gets most of its support from Bosniaks.

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