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Kooi Pang received his visa to enter the country on Sept. 29 and traveled from Malaysia to Harvard’s Design School the next day—arriving three weeks late, on the final day of registration...
While he waited for his visa, Pang missed two weeks of classes and significant work in the GSD’s Urban Planning and Design program...
Several other Harvard students from 26 countries for which the State Department has new, strict, post-Sept. 11 visa policies were unable to make their deadlines and had to defer admission until next year...
...Harvard officials say they, too, have faced difficulty in the past few months negotiating a new, complicated visa system while armed with very little information...
...need for heightened database security has been exposed repeatedly, thanks to high-profile thefts of sensitive information. These include the raiding of CD Universe's customer credit-card database in 2000 or the pilfering that year of patients' records from the University of Washington Medical Center. Visa and MasterCard have released guidelines to member banks and online merchants on measures each credit-card company expects them to take to protect card numbers. Congress, meanwhile, has passed laws demanding that financial institutions and health-care companies protect customer information...