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Dinner featured Raymond Kelly and Lewis Libby. Award accepted on behalf of General Petraeus by Col. Michael Iverson.

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TOO OFTEN ideas are discounted as the effete playthings of the chattering classes, yet they have the power to transform our nation’s institutions, f