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...late this past spring, Tom Ridge ’67, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said that the U.S. Visitor and Immigration Status Indication Technology System (U.S. VISIT) will be effective by the end of the year, replacing NSEERS, an older, controversial system for registering men from certain countries...
...years after Vladimir Okhotin’s release, the family emigrated to the United States, in hopes of escaping the persecution which had followed them in their homeland...
...deadliest event involving coalition forces since the end of the war--probably had nothing to do with Saddam Hussein, his family, his supporters, former members of his army or militias, foreign terrorists or anyone else who might be included in that overused phrase "bad guys." Majar is in the homeland of the marsh Arabs, Shi'ite Muslims who, after years of oppression, hate Saddam passionately. That doesn't make them any less dangerous--especially since Iraq is one of the most heavily armed nations on Earth--when crossed. The British died, al-Ebadi thinks, in compliance with old local customs...
...American Homeland Security measures may have affected our enrollment and that of other universities who run summer schools,” Queen said...
...life is ordered again, so I feel much better here than I did at home." In the 1960s and 1970s, Gastarbeiter (guest workers) poured into Germany to fill the menial jobs the Germans themselves didn't want. Now the trend is reversed, as Schulze and other Germans leave their homeland in search of work. In 2002, German labor offices arranged for more than 3,300 skilled workers to start jobs elsewhere in Europe, almost a 9% increase over 2000. Private employment agencies report a surge in interest, too. Over the past 12 months worldwidejobs.de, one of Germany's leading online...