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<p class="MsoNormal">Val Demmings would not back down to Trump on the campaign trail. She’d rough him up, and bring out black voters. But Obama will probably do that too. I worry that Warren is vulnerable to COVID-19 since her brother died. He was elderly,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> on behalf of George Duncan <gtduncan@gmail.com><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <Friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, May 18, 2020 at 12:30 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <Friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[FRIAM] Being Political<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">I've attached my thoughts on who would be strong candidates for Biden to appoint to Cabinet positions. Some positions have multiple suggestions. And some candidates might fit
in various positions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">What do you think?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">George Duncan<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University<br>
<a href="http://georgeduncanart.com/" target="_blank">georgeduncanart.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">See posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Land: (505) 983-6895 <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Mobile: (505) 469-4671<o:p></o:p></p>
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My art theme: Dynamic exposition of the tension between matrix order and luminous chaos.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<h1 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.25pt;font-weight:normal">"Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion."</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.25pt">From "Notes to myself on beginning a painting" by Richard Diebenkorn. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#5D5651">"It's that knife-edge of uncertainty where we come alive to our truest power." Joanna Macy.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#5D5651"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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