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...reform can solve the central question bedeviling the agency: how to separate the many who want to tour Disney World from the few who might blow it up. The INS recently detained a Pakistani business analyst, who was trying to fly from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to New York City but didn't have his papers with him. After the traveler's lawyer faxed a copy of his business visa, an INS agent let him board the plane with one final plea: "I hope you are not a terrorist. Don't embarrass...
...means assured. Tourists have not returned, which has left long-running hits like The Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables in danger of closing. Advance ticket sales are way off; people are going to the theater, but they are not planning ahead--a potentially fatal blow to shows that depend on hefty spring sales to get through the slow winter months. And the outlook for future productions is dicey. "What investors are asking themselves," says Jed Bernstein, president of the League of American Theatres and Producers, "is, If Broadway is already at the high-risk end of the investment...
...local market. Around her face, she wrapped an embroidered green scarf; her lips were painted red. By the time she had passed the turnip and tomato stalls of Yang-e-Qale town, a crowd of jeering men had formed. It was a woman who delivered the first blow, then the men joined in, pelting her with stones. Children finished the job by kicking up swirls of yellow dust, as she lay on the ground shielding her exposed face. Today, when Osema, 32, walks through the bazaar, only her dark eyelashes are visible from underneath a burka, a billowy head...
NUSSEIBEH: This certainly hasn?t helped us. It?s been a blow to us in the sense that it totally swept away the international community?s interest in our case. If anything, it unfortunately made it possible for many people to try to connect terrorism with the Palestinian cause...
...Barrios tells the story, the loss of his district was a sudden and unexpected blow he only learned about when the newest district maps came out a week ago. At that point, he mounted a last-minute campaign to save the Cambridge minority-influence district by uniting much of the old 28th in Demakis’s district...