Word: passport
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...Within 72 hours before your departure, take your passport to Freetown's central police station to receive a slip of paper clearing you to leave the country. This process requires visiting numerous officials and can take up to three or four hours. Some people pay a local taxi driver or "fixer" to complete this part of the formalities for them. 2) The airport serving the capital Freetown sits on the opposite bank of the wide mouth of a river from the city. There is no bridge so departing visitors can take either the ferry or the helicopter...
...last week's column I wrote about how I was dissuaded from Mac OS X largely because of the arrogance of Apple. Well, Microsoft is just in a whole other universe of arrogance. Don't even get me started on its .Net and Passport strategies (that's another article altogether). But remember, we're talking about kinder, gentler Microsofties, at least compared with the pre-antitrust trial version. Then they were viciously monopolistic. Now, they're just plain sneaky, and they're trying to fly under your radar. My advice: don't let them...
...Microsoft camp insists consumers will benefit for the opposite reason--because the ruling frees Microsoft, and hence the rest of the technology industry, to innovate and improve products without government meddling. The company has several new initiatives teed up, including Passport, a kind of Web-shopping manager, and Hailstorm, a subscription-based e-mail-alert Web service. One of Microsoft's main offenses in the antitrust case, the company points out, was giving away the Internet Explorer with Windows. "There weren't a lot of complaints from customers that they were getting a browser for free," says Jonathan Zuck, executive...
...down under. Publicists begged off for Nicole Kidman ("She's up to her eyeballs in a film right now") and Australia-raised Mel Gibson ("He's filming intensively"). So did James Murdoch, son of tycoon Rupert, on the excuse that he was born in England and holds an American passport?and, presumably, can speak English better than Kylie Minogue, who also declined to comment. We even tried Meryl Streep, who seemed to perfect an Australian accent in A Cry in the Dark. She was "in rehearsal." Thank heaven for writers. "If you think of the innumerable regional accents of English...
...random doctor’s appointment on Day 2, I looked so pitiful that the secretaries stuck me in a private waiting room. On Day 7, she insisted on taking me—in the tiny Honda that truly is one with the road—to get my passport picture retaken. (“You look fine. Smile.”) Weeks later, a customs official needed to see another form of identification before letting me leave the country...