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...used to be that America welcomed the vast crowds who arrived at Ellis Island, given that they didn’t carry any contagious diseases. Today, the process to become an American citizen is so filled by bureaucratic red tape that unless you have an American immediate relative or fiancé, are employed by an American company or are fleeing civil strife from your home country, you have little hope of joining this so-called land of immigrants...
Visitors to Italy who limit their trips to a tour of Tuscan villas or a stint in Rome have no idea of what they're missing. Why not leave the mainland behind and take a short flight?or the ferry from Naples?to the rugged, romantic and historically resonant island of Sicily...
Awaiting my turn at Immigration, I mentally inventory elements of my story that could be misinterpreted: my father is Pakistani, my passport is full of multiple visas to Pakistan, I've made occasional visits to Indonesia--would they believe I went just to the Hindu island of Bali? No, that poses its own problems. Even the book I carry--Bernard-Henri Levy's Who Killed Daniel Pearl?--begins to worry me. I reassure myself that at least I hold a British passport, but then I recall that both Richard Reid, the would-be shoe bomber, and Omar Sheikh, Pearl...
DIED. PIERRE CHARLES, 49, Prime Minister of the Caribbean island of Dominica; apparently of a heart attack; in Dominica. A former teacher who became the country's longest-serving legislator and a critic of U.S. policy in the Caribbean, he was appointed head of state in 2000 after his predecessor died, also of a heart attack...
...stories, I decided to become a playwright. But I was so frustrated by my early efforts, I cried myself to sleep many nights while attending military school at age 16. So instead I decided to direct for stage and enrolled as a theater major at Hofstra University on Long Island. And then one afternoon in 1956, while a freshman, all my interests came together as I watched Sergei Eisenstein's 1927 silent masterpiece October: Ten Days That Shook the World, about the Russian revolution. I knew instantly I could combine storytelling with the innovation and technology of cinema...