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...perhaps with Ansar al-Islam, an al-Qaeda-linked group that was based in the Kurdish areas of northern Iraq before the U.S. invasion. Mehmet Farac, an expert on Turkey's Islamic militants, says Hizballah may have linked up with al-Qaeda planners over the past year to regain ground it lost after its leader, Huseyin Velioglu, was killed in a police shoot-out in 2000. "Mutual interest is key to this partnership," says Farac. "Al-Qaeda wants to hit U.S., British and Israeli interests; Hizballah wants to prove it is back...
...Iwata, who had the great misfortune of taking over the company from legendary CEO Hiroshi Yamauchi a year-and-a-half ago?just as the bottom was falling out. Coming off its worst year in history, the company desperately needs a successful Christmas season if it is to regain the confidence of investors, who have pushed its stock down 24% over the past 12 months...
...with Ansar al-Islam, the al-Qaeda-linked group that was based in Kurdish areas of northern Iraq before the U.S. invasion. Mehmet Farac, an expert on Turkey's Muslim militants, says the group may have linked up with al-Qaeda planners over the past year to help it regain ground lost since its leader, Huseyin Velioglu, was killed in a police shoot-out in 2000. "Mutual interest is key to this partnership," says Farac. "Al-Qaeda wants to hit U.S., British and Israeli interests; Hizballah wants to prove it is back." Hizballah's potential involvement could prove embarrassing...
...fact, even if you have plenty of “recovery” sleep across subsequent nights after being deprived of sleep, you still cannot regain the sleep-dependent learning effect. Sleep deprivation, at least in terms of memory consolidation, is not like the bank. You cannot accumulate a debt and hope to pay it off in a lump sum at a later date. It is an all or nothing event, and if you don’t snooze, you lose...
Desperately trying to regain control of the ball with the clock winding down, Harvard’s defenders pounded Mathews, trying to strip the ball from his grasp...