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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...visa on Jan. 31. It is unclear exactly what hoops Iraqi students wishing to study in the United States must jump through in order to be trusted. The restrictive visas already issued to students after exhaustive background checks are now considered insufficient. Apparently the U.S. was being too lax by granting al-Dewachi only single-entry visas and forbidding him to leave the country for the first three years of his stay. Five years ago, under Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship, the U.S. did not consider al-Dewachi enough of a security risk to deny him a visa...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: An Unreasonable Request | 2/14/2007 | See Source »

...experience of standing around in the cold. The Fox was surprisingly fun, considering the crowdedness. Two freshman girls who could not stand up repeatedly dug their stilettos into everyone’s ankles in the smoking room. The Advocate ran out of booze by midnight, due to the surprisingly lax admissions policy, but that didn’t stop the dancing. Our hipster pals over there inform us that ennui is so last year...

Author: By Sachi A. Ezura, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: party reporter | 2/7/2007 | See Source »

...that have a U.S. departure or arrival. (Once you have Google Earth installed, go to fboweb.com and click on the "Google Earth Primer" button.) It's a dramatic piece of software: there you are, in your own home, and you can monitor planes taking off and landing at LAX, O'Hare or a handful of other impossibly busy airports. The SpaceNavigator improves the experience, by giving you a manageable way to, say, find a particular plane then zoom in and level off next to it, to get a pilot's view of the flightplan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 3DConnexion SpaceNavigator | 12/29/2006 | See Source »

...this plan seems, well, too lax, then take heart in knowing we're still beating the rest of the world. If they gave Olympic medals for shoving kids out the door the fastest, we'd still be on the podium. In countries like Japan and Italy and Spain, about 70% of children aged 25 to 34 still live at home. Here it's only 11%. Cue the national anthem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Grown Kids Return Home | 12/4/2006 | See Source »

...hate Bush because he is an American or because he is a Christian," says Sobri Lubis, spokesman for the Islamic Defenders Front, which helped organize Sunday's anti-Bush rally and is infamous in Indonesia for sending thuggish vice squads to nightclubs and bars to expose lax Muslims. "We hate him because we think he is a war criminal and he has made the lives of Muslims miserable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia Braces for Bush | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

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