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...millions of unwanted GameCubes, Nintendo had to suspend production on the boxes for the first nine months of this year. Such operations snafus contributed to the company's first half-yearly loss since going public in 1962. Breaking the firm's profitability streak became an embarrassing black eye for 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...
...germ," is how MILF negotiator Michael Mastura put it to TIME. "Why should we allow ourselves to become infected?" Mastura says statements made by JI detainees like Hambali, which occur under the extreme duress of interrogation, aren't credible. Moreover, the MILF promised a year-and-a-half ago to cut all ties with foreign and local terrorists as part of the peace negotiations. Since then, the Philippine government has skirted the subject of JI's presence in Mindanao. "We give our MILF brethren the benefit of the doubt that they are not coddling foreign terrorists," says Defense Secretary Ermita...
...past year-and-a-half, two main scenarios have been on the table—a graduate school campus anchored by the Harvard Law School (HLS) or a science hub with possible tie-ins to commercial biotech...
...year-and-a-half ago, we set out to investigate just how open Harvard’s gates are to women. With the backing of the Christopher J. Georges Fellowship and the Nieman Foundation, we embarked on a project, ambitiously titled “Are The Barriers Broken?: Investigating The Status of Women at Harvard...
According to a number of observers, Lewis has clashed with Summers in the year-and-a-half the president has been in office. The issues, one official said, have been “partly style and partly substance...