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...wife Geng He took their daughter and infant son and slipped away from their official minders in Beijing. They traveled south, aided by a network of Falun Gong practitioners, and eventually crossed into Burma and then Thailand. Two months later they reached the U.S., where they were given political asylum. On the first anniversary of Gao's disappearance, Geng demanded that the Chinese government produce her husband. So far her cries have been met with disdain. A police officer told Gao's brother in January that he had gone missing while out on a walk, an improbable claim given...
...choice words: he was the first of several young protagonists to describe what it was to feel lost and aloof—and to be treated by the medical establishment for having such feelings. It’s never exactly clear whether Holden is sent to an asylum for “craziness” or for just being “run down,” but Salinger opened the way for future writers to begin to describe young characters who, young as they were, were telling stories of themselves looking back from...
...teachers. But while it does that, the U.S., and its international partners, can help expedite the process by launching an international scholarship program. Not just to the U.S., as the Fulbright program does, but around the world. Yes, there is a possibility that scholarship students will abscond or seek asylum - the program will have to take those risks into account. But every year donors will be able to quantify the money spent on education and, in a generation or less, not only Afghanistan but the U.S. will begin to reap the rewards...
...reportedly began after three Italian teenagers fired air rifles at two African immigrants, unsettled a nation that prides itself on its bella figura - the beautiful image. About 2,500 migrants live in the Rosarno valley in the southern Calabria region, moving with the seasonal agricultural jobs. Many have political asylum or are otherwise legally in Italy, but legal or not, the migrants are managed by a Mafia-run employment system, the caporalato, that operates like a 21st century chain gang. Saviano says that those who object to low wages or poor working conditions are simply eliminated - and not just...
...Hmong fought on the side of the U.S. in the conflicts that ravaged Southeast Asia in the 1970s, and a handful of rebels are still waging an insurgency against Laos' communist government. Although 158 deportees are legitimate refugees, as declared by the U.N., Bangkok refused to continue providing them asylum. Some 300,000 Hmong have fled to Thailand since the '70s, but most have already been repatriated or resettled in other countries...