The site is not so much a community as a meta-community, a collection of many different groups of people with similar interests.

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What is missing is a community solution where the interests of all members are aligned.

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Although foreign policy is still about national interests, "we also recognize we must advance those interests by developing a community of nations in which people can share in common values, " he said.

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But then, it is no longer strange to see Hillels on American university campuses behaving in a manner that is not in line with what might be considered the interests of either the American Jewish community or the Jewish people as a whole.

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Realistically, the country is a community of individuals and private institutions, including the family, with their own interests, bound not by mutual love but by the political principles that are set forth in the Constitution, a document that secures and celebrates the freedom to pursue those interests, varied as they might be.

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In the ongoing debate over whether to subject American maritime interests to the whims of the "international community, " a subset of LOST proponents have taken to pointing to the January 2008 near-altercation between U.S. warships and Iranian speedboats in the Strait of Hormuz as evidence of the necessity of U.S. ratification.

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Happily, a handful of committed community members throughout the country are standing up and demanding that their communal leaders act in the interests of the communities they serve.

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