Word: citizenship
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Although Harvard, as a non-profit organization, does not pay taxes, Spiegelman said the University--in recognition of the duties of Cambridge citizenship--has increased payments to the city from $2 million to more than $4 million over the past decade...
...Palestinian terrorist. In all that time, Awad felt, the U.S. had treated him shabbily. While he had been hailed by a Senate panel as "a hero for the American people," Washington had taken seven years to issue him a green card -- and still would not honor his request for citizenship and a passport. Moreover, payment of his reward money had been stalled after Rashid's murder conviction in 1992, then again a year later when the verdict was upheld. Now, finally, a check for $750,000 was going to be placed in his hands. But he had given up hoping...
...prosecutor. Would he enter the Witness Protection Program and testify against Rashid? Awad was told the Rashid case would be wrapped up in two years, after which he could receive a State Department reward of as much as $500,000. More interested in the prospect of U.S. citizenship than in a hefty reward, Awad asked only that he be able to live as well as he had in Switzerland...
Awad is now living under a new name somewhere in the U.S. -- and still dreaming of citizenship...
...failure to justify or explain her personal aversion to the death penalty, which a majority of voters want, leaves her open to charges of being soft on law and order. On immigration, she adamantly opposes Wilson's proposals to deny the children of illegal immigrants their citizenship, schooling and even emergency health care, but may have gone too far in her own way by proposing that Army units be used in support of a U.S. border-patrol crackdown. Latino leaders quickly decried that proposal as a "militarization of the border." On the economy, though, her call for the million...