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...wouldn’t get “un-promoted.” He carried this crafty attitude into his first date when he treated her to a glitzy dinner in the North End replete with flowing red wine, followed by an evening performance at the Improv Asylum, a hip comedy club in Boston...
...police a year ago aboard a leaky boat off Irian Jaya, has come to Jakarta to help the traumatized survivors. "I would never think of going aboard a boat again," says Ihab, who has been granted refugee status by the U.N. and is now waiting for an offer of asylum. In the grimy Jakarta hotel that houses last week's survivors, men still in torn, dirty clothes stand alone or in small groups, staring dazedly at the ground or weeping quietly. Speaking on the hotel's single phone, a woman is rocking back and forth, barely able to utter more...
...Siri's case demonstrates the oddities of the international legal system. He is in Britain on asylum from Egypt, where he was sentenced to death for the attempted murder of the Prime Minister in 1993, a charge he denies. "That was a military court," he told Time before his arrest. "I'm a civilian." Governments across Western Europe, their feet held to the fire by strong civil-liberties groups, have been protective of the rights of refugees and asylum seekers. And while the European Union has demolished barriers to the movement of goods and people, its 15 nations have been...
...Those charged with catching terrorists won't stop trying. And governments are reassessing their policies on immigration, asylum and open borders. New legislation is promised in Canada, Britain and Germany; the talks this year when Mexican and American officials seriously considered not tightening, but liberalizing, their immigration policies now bear the sad echo of a lost world...
...NAURU Refugee Standoff Australia's strategy of sending asylum seekers to the Pacific island of Nauru suffered a setback when 200 Palestinians and Iraqis refused to disembark from an Australian navy ship. The group left H.M.A.S. Manoora after a 12-day standoff, but not before the U.N. said it would not process any further boatloads bound for Australia and diverted to Nauru...