Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Citizenship Problem...
Discussion of the larger issue of faculty "citizenship" has blossomed at the University since the recent release of the annual report of former acting Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky...
...clerk brought out a yellow federal form, and I filled in my name, address, height, weight, race, and date and place of birth. I also answered eight yes-or-no questions about my citizenship, criminal record, illegal drug use, and whether I had ever been judged mentally defective or been dishonorably discharged from the armed forces. After I signed it, he asked to see my driver's license. I said I didn't have it on me but could recite the number and had other I.D. He insisted on the driver's license, so I retrieved it from...
...than a brain. Math was particularly tough for him -- an F in ninth grade and a D+ that summer; a C in 10th-grade algebra, but an F in geometry. In the 11th grade he pulled math up to C and C- (matching steady Cs in English), but failed citizenship. ("And that would eliminate. . .," his American history teacher paused, in a lecture about lurking communists . . . "YOU!" stage-whispered Nelson Peltz just a little too loud, in the incident that may have sealed his fate.) Nelson graduated from a different high school, then went on to, and dropped out of, college...
...which opened the door to large numbers of non-Europeans. At a time when America is losing ground in the global economic competition, the new law represents a major shift in philosophy about who should get permanent residency, the "green card" status that makes immigrants eligible for full citizenship in five years. The old system stressed family reunification: 90% of slots went to the relatives of earlier arrivals. Now brainpower and purchasing power will also count...