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Is Obama a Middle East ‘splitter’?

By Gideon Rachman

Published: November 17 2008 19:11 | Last updated: November 17 2008 19:11

Historians are sometimes divided into lumpers and splitters. The splitters like to chop problems up into lots of small bits. The lumpers like to link them altogether.

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