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...broke with the organization, becoming a freelance journalist. (Lee Chek is a pen name he uses to protect relatives still living in North Korea from retribution.) Chongyron - which functions as North Korea's de-facto diplomatic voice in Japan - took away his North Korean passport, and he hasn't been back to Pyongyang. Permitted to take Korean or Japanese nationality, last year Lee took South Korean citizenship in order to travel abroad...
...support land-mine clearance in Pakistan. "Some of the charity workers have to go where literacy rates are low and suspicion of strangers is high," says Morton. "They carry pictures of Diana with them, and everywhere they go, she is recognized as a humanitarian. Diana is like a passport that allows our workers into these villages so they can do their jobs." The market may have put a value on every aspect of Diana?s life and death, but there are places where her image is still priceless...
...those with attention-deficit disorder; it requires patient, intensive listening to oft-repeated positions and grievances, the eternal search for a comma that will appease both sides. For that reason alone, it would be wonderful to have a President with lots of stamps in his or her passport or a President who speaks a foreign language fluently or has lived overseas or has spent time in the military or in negotiations with foreign leaders. It was possible for George W. Bush to run for President in 2000 without knowing the name of the President of Pakistan; the next President will...
...shouldn’t fall into the trap of thinking that every time someone gets their passport stamped some great educational advance has been achieved,” says Interim President Derek...
Yang, 43, was first arrested in April 2002 after entering China with a friend’s passport. The government had revoked Yang’s own passport for his involvement in the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square...