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...subject say research into ocean-mixing is only just beginning and that it's too early to make such assertions. "I appreciate what they [the Caltech team] are saying, but taking experiments of one particular event and extrapolating it to a global scale is always problematic," says oceanographer Andre Visser of the Technical University of Denmark...
Were Iraqi Shi'ites really an Iranian fifth column, all this might be cold comfort. But the truth is more complicated. Though many Sunnis won't admit it, Iraqi nationalism runs deep among their long-repressed countrymen. As historian Reidar Visser has observed, Iraq's Shi'ites have never launched a broad-based movement to secede. When Baghdad and Tehran went to war in the 1980s, Iraq's Shi'ite soldiers fought fiercely, especially after Iranian forces crossed onto Iraqi soil. It's true that one major Shi'ite party, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Dawa, took refuge...
...scoring sequence was a blur: Beal won the draw, Jason Visser tipped a shot on net and Bouchard knocked in the rebound...
...film is in fact Farrell, a relative unknown from Ireland who gives an impressive performance as the son of a senator who is shielded from the front line but not from confrontational situations in the POW camp. Farrell, as well as Marcel Iures (who plays German Col. Wilhelm Visser) and Terrence Howard (who plays Hart’s client), all upstage Willis’ colonel. In fairness to Willis, however, his character is much less dynamic than his German counterpart or his subordinates. While these other three characters each get the chance to glorify their position with a speech, Willis...
...Jesse A. Visser...