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That is easier said than done. Plans for a London meeting were aborted when British authorities refused Abdi a visa. He has had to make his preparations in utmost secrecy lest Iran's still powerful hard-liners detain him before his departure for France. Once a fervent supporter of Iran's clerical regime, Abdi was arrested in 1993 and spent nearly a year in prison for criticizing the mullahs' aversion to democracy...
Jesus is running late. The State Department seemed hesitant to let him into the country--his visa application was approved and then unapproved. A few days later, without explanation, it was approved again. So now Jesus is in--but he's running late. At 11 p.m. the man checking names at the door of the Village Vanguard, the New York City jazz club where Miles played, where Monk played, says Jesus hasn't arrived but his plane "is touching down even as we speak." As a result, Jesus' set has been pushed back from 11:30 to 'round midnight...
...veto the bill because of its dubious effect on American workers, and because of the high tech industry's even more dubious claims that a labor shortage exists in the first place. According to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 85 percent of the workers hired under the so-called H-1B visa program are not exceptionally skilled at all, and are instead low-level computer programmers making less than $75,000 a year. Are we really so lacking as to need to import 115,000 workers to do this kind of work...
...Project to Promote Competition Innovation in the Digital Age, a group of Microsoft rivals that will pursue its lofty goal by urging the authorities to sue Bill Gates' pants off. ProComp, as it's called, will have help navigating D.C.'s treacherous lobbying shoals from ex-Senator and Visa pitchman Bob Dole as well as from such heavy hitters as ex-Federal Trade Commissioner Christine Varney, ex-FTC general counsel Kevin Arquit and Powell Tate, the p.r. firm headed by Carter White House vet Jody Powell and onetime Reagan aide Sheila Tate...
...visa began it. Adams' U.S. visit strengthened his stance for politics over terrorism within the I.R.A. and broadened his narrow views. The U.S. decision to take Adams seriously also made it harder for him to backtrack from diplomacy. After an I.R.A. cease-fire in 1994, Clinton and senior aides stepped up the frequency of meetings with Protestant Unionist leaders who had long considered Washington biased toward a united Ireland. When the President visited London, Dublin and Belfast in late 1995, he was hailed as a peacemaker...