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...simple and elegant that-well, it's an affront to a dynamic capitalist society. And it's all about to change. Someday soon, when you just want to score five Andrew Jacksons so you can have dinner at that great little place that doesn't take Visa, you could find yourself in a very slow line behind people sending flowers to Mom or arguing over which seats to buy for the next Disney on Ice show...
...separate agencies overseen by the Justice Department. One would handle immigration services, and the other would be in charge of law enforcement. Another bill, which passed the House last week, would add 1,000 agents to track down unwanted aliens; close the vast loopholes in the student-visa program; allocate $150 million for border-policing technology, including biometrics that could electronically identify fingerprints; and mandate a shared-information platform with the Justice and State departments to keep potential terrorists from falling through the cracks. Even today, for instance, the INS and FBI fingerprint systems can't cross-reference. The same...
...native India; the country banned his novel The Satanic Verses in 1988, followed by Sri Lanka and Pakistan, for its alleged insult against Muslims. A year later, Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa for Rushdie’s head. And though he was later issued a visa to return to India nearly a decade after his exile, Rushdie had already established a reputation as a national and literary outsider, living in hiding and tip-toeing around a troubled society he refused to accept without first subjecting it to his trademark critical...
...years of Hong Kong filmmaking did the rest. Doyle didn't pick up a camera until his late twenties, when he accompanied a musician friend on a 20-day trek around Taiwan to record folk songs: "He had a camera and I had the time." Without a visa and under the pseudonym Du Ke Feng ("like the wind"), he joined the news department of China Television, making documentaries for the Taiwanese version of 60 Minutes. Then, director friend Edward Yang invited Doyle to work on his feature debut That Day, On the Beach (1983), and the New Wave was underway...
...year. The lead character was a skater dude named Maxx who had a gang of cool, streetwear-stylish pals. The Gardener collective was born. Since 1999, Sony Music Entertainment Television has owned the Japanese license to the Gardener series and has plastered them on key rings, T shirts and Visa cards...