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...enough heat for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, a federal advisory panel now wants to abolish the troubled agency, dividing its duties between the State and Justice departments. New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani continues to escalate his feud with the INS over its release of a Palestinian asylum-seeker who last week was charged with plotting a terrorist bombing in Brooklyn. Police sources say evidence includes a note threatening a series of attacks on American and Jewish interests. Meanwhile, Congress is embracing the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform's proposal to abolish the INS, as state officials complain...
...Steinbrenner have the last laugh. The hours before the game were filled with several angry confrontations between sportswriters and Yankee officials, who kept the clubhouse closed at Steinbrenner's command. The owner, not choosing his words carefully enough, said, "I'm just trying to give the players a little asylum down there...
...asylum, Irabu was welcomed by his new teammates. "Hey, what's up, man?" third baseman Charlie Hayes said upon meeting Irabu. "He's a big old boy," said Cecil Fielder, the Yankees' gargantuan slugger. Indeed, Irabu is 6 ft. 3 in. and 240 lbs., wears a size 52 jacket and pants with a 40-in. waist. In his monthlong tour of the minors, where he made six starts, Irabu impressed his Yankee escorts with his fastball (high 90s), fork ball (high 80s) and fork. "He ate everything," said Arthur Richman, the 72-year-old club executive who accompanied Irabu...
Following the war, Albright returned with her family to Czechoslovakia. Her father resumed his career in the diplomatic corps and was a rising star until the communists took over in 1948. Again her family fled, this time seeking asylum in the United States, where her father became a professor at the University of Denver...
Naked is largely a record of the author's success and failure at the many stints of his life. He writes of his experience as an intern at an insane asylum, as a dishwasher, a fruitpicker, a thief and a jade-salesperson. Many of these adventures occur during his travels, where it is clear Sedaris has an ear not only for how Americans talk but, more importantly, for how they cuss...