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...Saudis stripped him of his citizenship, and Sudan, under U.S. pressure, forced him to leave his base there. But the Taliban, the Islamist rulers of most of Afghanistan, have not cracked down on him. In July the head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Turki al Faisal, flew to Kandahar and asked the black-turbaned Taliban leaders to keep bin Laden quiet. After the prince left, Mullah Mohammed Omar, the cleric who founded the Taliban movement, had a chat with bin Laden. "We told him," the mullah told TIME, "that as a guest he shouldn't involve himself in activities that create...
...weekend before the taping, I decided not to study up, or even brood very much. After a lifetime of normal U.S. citizenship, if I did not know my feelings on this matter, too bad for me. My fellow panelists--Cynthia Tucker, Elaine Chao, Sherman Alexie, Clarence Page, Richard Rodriguez, Kay James and Roberto Suro--clearly had decided the same thing. Jim Lehrer, our moderator, encouraged us to let our feelings rise to the occasion...
International students, who have had trouble getting loans in the past, will especially benefit from the agreement, which does not discriminate on the basis of citizenship...
...Stalwarts, including the popular Uncle Sam-goateed defender Alexi Lalas and Marcello Balboa, have been benched. Lalas' spot has been taken by David Regis, a fluid fullback who was born in Martinique, lives in France and plays in Germany. Regis is married to an American, and he got his citizenship papers just before the U.S. team left for France. Regis was tutored for his citizenship test by other players, and soon after becoming an American answered his phone to hear the national anthem being sung by his teammates. It doesn't get cornier than that, but this U.S. team happens...
...little shaky. But last week the opposition Democratic Party of Japan announced it would launch an investigation of the relationship and of the woman. Result: a lot of questions--Why was Hashimoto using a Chinese, not a Japanese, interpreter? How did the woman subsequently get Japanese citizenship so easily?--are being raised, and loudly...