In Lebanon, which has known long periods of instability in recent years, Paul Haidostian, who is the president of Haigazian University, believes that Mr.Obama's Nobel is a step in the right direction and is a positive omen for the future.

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It is a titanic struggle for the future direction of a country that, so often, shows the way for the rest of the Middle East.

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However at this time, in my view, it is simply not possible to make a call on the future direction of BlackBerry stock with any reasonable degree of confidence.

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As much as I mock the all of this, the series started out solidly, but this all seems to point to a lack of coherent future direction for the series.

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