Word: alienated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made him look like a blind, suntanned Santa Claus in shades--gained nationwide notoriety as the spiritual counselor to the World Trade Center bombers. Yet the sheik remained free in the wake of the bombing, even though, aside from his circumstantial involvement with the bombers, he was an illegal alien...
...cleric Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, local politicians are wondering -- Why not kick him out? The answer is, It's not so easy. A year after he entered the U.S. in 1990, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, unaware of his revolutionary past, granted him a "green card," or permanent resident alien status. When the ins found out, it rescinded the card -- and began a nearly interminable process. In March an immigration judge found him deportable; Abdel Rahman appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeals in Washington, where a ruling can take from six months to two years; if it rules against...
...understand you may be somewhat confused by the topsy-turvy, science- fictive ways you encounter here on our alien planet. I'm hoping this may help you find your way around them...
...more thing. Alien means resident. (As in "I live here because I'm a 'resident alien.' " You'll see lots of "aliens" in the U.S. -- they are the people who come from other countries, as opposed to "real Americans," who are people who came from other countries a little while...
...world turned into one big catastrophe waiting to happen--or waiting for our agents to sell our story to alien producers looking for a disaster-of-the-week movie. But at least all the destruction means we've had at least some kind of earth-shattering changes to yell about since we got to college...