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...fateful day when the parents decide they want to go home?but the children don't. Pollock, who explores this parent-child divide in Third Culture Kids: the Experience of Growing Up Among Worlds, explains that there can be a deep fissure between the country on someone's passport and the place he or she considers home: "Your passport tells you what country you are allowed to reside in. Your heart tells you what is home. Sometimes parents don't realize the depth of connection their children feel to the country they are living in." Dale Ford, head counselor...
...Everyone else is gone, there’s a no-show, and I’m on. The woman tells me that El Al’s security policy is such that she can’t sell me a one-way ticket unless I have an Israeli passport. Another technicality: I don’t have mine with me. I show her that my American passport confirms my birth in Israel, and she makes a rare exception. When I get on the flight my resolve crumbles—I’ve attained my task, no more planning?...
...Cambridge smoking ban, we are told, aims to improve the workplace safety of bartenders and waitresses, that noble lot forced to contend with low pay, no health insurance and, if they work in Harvard Square, passport wielding Euro-trash who don’t know how to tip. But, behind the second-hand smoke statistics and public health claims lurks the upturned noses and holier-than-thou stares of those “pious gentlemen” who believe in letting us live only as they...
...Cambridge smoking ban, we are told, aims to improve the workplace safety of bartenders and waitresses, that noble lot forced to contend with low pay, no health insurance and, if they work in Harvard Square, passport wielding Euro-trash who don’t know how to tip. But, behind the second-hand smoke statistics and public health claims lurks the upturned noses and holier-than-thou stares of those “pious gentlemen” who believe in letting us live only as they...
...Test U.K. The Home Office proposed exams for would-be British citizens. Under the plans, likely to become law in 2004, immigrants would have to demonstrate proficiency in English, as well as an understanding of U.K. history and society before they could apply for a British passport. On passing the tests, they would have to take an oath and pledge of loyalty. Similar schemes exist in other European countries, including the Netherlands and Austria...