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...stay in shape, refuses to play or otherwise breaches the contract. Teams often argue without success that this provision covers a host of sins, but Paul Weiler, a sports law professor at Harvard Law School, says behavior that prompts an indictment is probably just the type of bad citizenship contemplated in the language. Unless Bonds is convicted, though, "I doubt [the Giants] would enforce it," Weiler explains, because "Bonds is in his last year, and his income potential in terms of the fans he can draw" is of enormous benefit to the Giants. At least until he breaks the home...
...order to encourage leaks, it follows, reporters must be able to guarantee anonymity to their sources. And in order to protect that anonymity, journalists must be excused from the ordinary duties of citizenship, such as testifying in a criminal investigation...
...insult. Although Israel's Law of Return guarantees all Jews citizenship, Shoshana Miller, 43, a convert to Judaism, was told when she emigrated from the U.S. last year that her status as a Jewish national was in question. Reason: she had been converted by a Reform rather than an Orthodox rabbi. Interior Minister Yitzhak Peretz, himself an Orthodox leader, insisted that Miller's identity card be stamped with the word convert...
...American named Joannie, hoped to become a permanent U.S. resident. But first the Immigration and Naturalization Service in New York City wanted him and his new wife to answer a few questions?questions carefully designed to catch foreigners who enter into sham marriages with Americans simply to gain citizenship. INS officials have been known to ask applicants about tattoos and which side of the bed someone sleeps on, then double-check the answers with their spouses. "We married for love," said Bernard. "But we had heard stories about the interview, and, well, we were still nervous." Nonetheless, he easily passed...
Bernard might have a tougher time today. Until recently, the foreign spouses almost always received permanent residency status, one step away from full citizenship. Last year more than 60,000 foreigners took that route. Convinced that more than a third of the petitions for permanent residency based on marriage are fraudulent, Congress in October enacted an alien-marriage bill to help the INS guard against those who wed simply to become citizens...