He also felt Arsenal had been the victims of dodgy penalty decisions in the past, recalling an incident in the Champions League defeat against Liverpool in 2008.

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As we consider the conflicting reports of the use of chemical weapons that have emerged from Syria over the past weeks, it is worth recalling that the al Qaeda affiliate in Syria has in the past used crude chemical weapons on multiple occasions in neighboring Iraq.

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Recalling my past frustrations, this immediately put me on my guard and I started the countdown to the inevitable blue-screen-of-death that would signal that some driver or another was wholly incompatible with some function or another of my laptop.

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On this afternoon in early December he is recalling his past and projecting out a bit--five years hence--for the business empire whose saga has seen him go from plastic-flower manufacturer to the richest resident of Asia.

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