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...Booker? Byng: The deadline for the Booker is Sept. 30. We published it on Oct. 3. That was a very deliberate decision. Although Michel has been living in Commonwealth countries since he was seven, he's actually Dutch. His wife and I are trying to get him dual citizenship so he'll be eligible next year. It's the biggest book - in terms of length - that we've ever published. TIME: Why did a guy like you go into an industry like publishing? Byng: Books had done things for me - taking me places - that other things hadn...
...provoked renewed outcries for the abolition of double peine, which affects thousands of forgotten foreign convicts each year, most of them of North African descent. Mesbah, like so many others in his predicament, was raised, educated and spent most of his life in France but never obtained full citizenship. If he had been set free, he would have been forcibly returned to Algeria, a country whose culture and languages are not his own. In denying Mesbah the justice of parole, the Toulouse magistrate sought to prevent the greater injustice of deportation. "In a situation as surreal as this...
...University citizenship does play a role,” he said. “I’ve really dealt with all departments, and my scholarship has been influenced by the relationships that I’ve developed with other fields...
...That Kim chose as his principal change-agent a mainland Chinese businessman with Dutch citizenship is, in itself, an acknowledgment that the North Koreans can't reform themselves. No less a figure than Kim Yong Nam, the second-most powerful man in North Korea, handed over the zone's authority to Yang in a ceremony last week, while other top comrades watched sullenly from armchairs. Yang, sporting a Kim Jong Il badge pinned next to the alligator on his Lacoste golf shirt, insists the new zone is a sincere effort. "General Kim wants to open a window to the world...
...speech, retitled “Of Faith and Citizenship,” from its original title “American Jihad,” Yasin spoke about the perceived contradiction between his Muslim faith and his American citizenship...