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...officials tell TIME they have also obtained electronic messages passed between Baghdad and the group. "There's all sorts of signal intercepts that indicate communications," says a State Department official. "There's clearly a dialogue going on." Those threads, the official tells TIME, suggest Ansar had approached Baghdad to obtain help making biological and chemical weapons. But after that, the intelligence peters out. Did Baghdad help them? "That we don't know," the official says. But some U.S. officials say they do know Ansar eventually figured out how to make toxins...
Officials say their information on this is very touchy, since some of it comes from countries not openly allied with the U.S. "Several Middle East partners have either helped obtain information," says a senior Administration official, "or they are giving refuge to people they are getting this from." One especially shy source would be the Syrian government. Sources tell TIME that Syria has given the U.S. information about contacts between al-Qaeda and the Iraqi regime gleaned from a suspected al-Qaeda operative in its custody...
...benefit of the Harvard system as it now stands is that it is extremely difficult for any individual student to get left behind in a class. There are plenty of opportunities to display a degree of ability and thus to obtain a reasonable grade. The emphasis is on consistently attending lecture and, more importantly, section and assiduously completing the frequent assignments. With decent notes for exam review and papers or problem sets of the requisite length, a very respectable grade is a near-certainty. In this way hard-working students are rewarded, and those who are unwilling...
Perhaps it's because, as a rather burly teenage sheik, al-Sabah wanted to wear only loose-fitting clothes by avant-garde Japanese designers, difficult to obtain in Kuwait. His penchant for getting the hard-to-find became his vocation. In 1991 al-Sabah began visiting the top European fashion houses, begging them to let him carry their brands in Kuwait. None consented. Undeterred, al-Sabah went to the U.S., where business was easier. "All the Americans wanted was a credit rating," he says. And despite a few hiccups--the head of sales at Donna Karan sent him away...
...growth rate of the Romany population in Slovakia, but issues like lack of informed consent apply to a number of countries in Central Europe." According to the report, health care workers throughout eastern Slovakia, a part of the country with the highest concentration of Roma, still fail to obtain informed consent or to advise Roma patients of other options, such as contraceptives. Their actions, the report contends, are fueled by fears, widespread in Slovakia, of Roma overpopulation, as well as the belief of many Slovak doctors that repeat deliveries via caesarean section can be dangerous - hence the recommended sterilization after...