Word: passport
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...have to do is forward him your address, phone number, bank account and other personal details. Later, of course, you’ll have to sign some blank documents and send him a color photocopy of your passport, but no one mentions this up front. Eventually, if you succeed in jumping through all these hoops, the millions of dollars will be yours—once you fly to Nigeria and collect it in person...
...copies of King's X-ray images. Both men declined. But Pauling was coming to a Royal Society meeting in May 1952; it would be tougher to refuse him in person. As Pauling was preparing to board a plane in New York, however, the U.S. government seized his passport, citing what they considered his dangerous left-wing political views. While that setback might delay Pauling, Watson and Crick knew it would not stop...
...police station, this was luxurious. Then, after 50 days in custody, I was finally released on bail on Jan. 18, thanks in large part to pressure from Paris-based Reporters Without Borders and New York's Center to Protect Journalists. But the police have yet to return my passport, credit cards, ATM card, mobile phone or address book. And I must still go before the courts to face the charges against me, which carry a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. I am confident the High Court will acquit me of all charges...
...Once over break I had left my passport at school and needed it to travel, and Cort went to my room, found it and mailed it out to me. It was the sweetest thing,” said Betsy A. Sykes...
...time of increasing pressure on the Arab world to democratize. Journalists and human-rights groups have called for the charges against him to be dropped. Ibrahim, who teaches at Cairo's American University, says he "was humbled and heartened by the support I got worldwide." He holds a U.S. passport but says he "did not ask the U.S. to interfere on my behalf although I am a dual citizen. I wanted to keep the battle lines clear and clean. I was fighting an Egyptian cause as an Egyptian on Egyptian soil." When the White House informed President Hosni Mubarak last...