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Harvard rarely issues debt, has nearly universal name recognition, and is located in a state with “strong wealth demographics,” said Steve Milano, who is also a managing director at Barclays, noting that these factors contributed to the success of the sale...
While the incident was ultimately a minor one - at this private institution, only two of the more than 4,000 students wear veils - it was the first significant flare-up in the U.S. since a Florida woman sued the state in 2002 for refusing to allow her to wear a veil in her driver's license photo. (She lost on appeal.) Meanwhile, the debate over head coverings has been raging in Europe and parts of the Middle East over whether schools and other institutions can ban Muslim clothing such as the hijab (headscarf), the niqab (veil with an opening...
...What a lot of people don't realize is that with the increasingly strict obligation to prove your citizenship, you can walk into a state administration today to have your ID or passport renewed, and walk out virtually a stateless person," says Naulleau, 48, whose family had been posted to Baden-Baden, Germany - about 30 miles from the French border - when he was born in 1961. "The situation is creating a two-class system of citizenship in which French nationals born abroad or to foreign parents are treated as inferior, and forced to prove their worthiness of being French more...
...they note, in a world where terrorism and identity theft has become more commonplace. Perhaps, detractors say, but those French citizens born overseas or in France to foreign-born parents are facing a trial that their peers are not. While the latter group can often rely on the French state to check official records to prove their citizenship, people born in former French colonies to naturalized immigrant parents or to French families abroad are being subjected to a paper chase that often leads to dead ends. Many fear they may lose their French nationality altogether. (See pictures of the French...
...This week, however, the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) has drummed up new charges against Jetstar Pacific, in addition to its investigation of Darsilli and Freeman. On Wednesday, state-media reported that Jetstar Pacific had violated maintenance regulations and concealed broken aircraft parts. A Qantas spokesperson said that at all times the planes had met regulatory requirements and that the CAAV brought up only "quality, not safety concerns." Thayer, however, predicts that Vietnam will try and continue to try to find small oversights to "extort" Qantas like they did ABN AMRO more than three years ago. "They just find...