Word: passport
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Right or wrong, most people think of a Harvard degree as the ultimate passport to big bucks. Despite the Admissions Office's claims to the contrary, many students come to the College because of its reputation for producing generations of successful lawyers and businesspeople...
...drug- running informants, that he realized he might be of assistance to Pan Am. He was also looking for work. Two months earlier he had been deactivated by the DIA after being arrested by the FBI for using his DIA cover name, Thomas Leavy, on a passport application. Coleman claims that the DIA instructed him to do this. "But such trumped-up charges are frequently used to keep spooks quiet," says A. Ernest Fitzgerald, a Pentagon whistle-blower and a director of the Fund for Constitutional Government in Washington, which has been looking into Coleman's case...
...plot revolves around Dr. Max Lowe (Patrick Swayze), who goes to India in search of "enlightenment" at an Ashram near Calcutta. Frustrated by his career in America, he yearns to "find himself." Instead he finds himself stranded in Calcutta, robbed of his money and passport, where he accidentally encounters Hazari, a poor Indian farmer masterfully played by Om Puri. Hazari has a family--a wife, Kamla (Shabana Azmi), two sons and a daughter. Hazari pulls a rickshaw for a living, under the auspices of the Landlord--known as the Godfather to the tenants--and his merciless son, Ashok. The story...
...while Christian, Muslim and Druse communities face restrictions on travel and emigration, none are fully barred from permanently leaving as are Jews. With the stamp Musawi ("Mosaic") on their passport, Jews are the only Syrians whose religious identity appears on internal travel documents...
...learn what a real Belgian passport looks like," he continues. "All those Au Pair girls with their international student I.D. cards are laughed...