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...speech by a North Korean diplomat at the Kennedy School of Government that had been tentatively planned for tomorrow has been cancelled after the State Department refused to grant the official a visa, the University said yesterday...
...There are an estimated 3,000-plus Americans living in Nicaragua, though there are no reliable statistics because many are here on a tourist visa, or part time. A lot of U.S. expats came here via Costa Rica or another nearby foreign-retirement country, looking for a place where they could stay one step ahead of the real estate boom. And property prices in colonial towns such as Granada, and in beach areas like San Juan del Sur - where some 50 development projects have popped up in the last five years - have grown by as much as 300% in three...
...closer to the conservative Christians who play a big role in G.O.P. politics than most of the current leadership. At the same time, he's been willing to look for compromises on some key issues, attempting earlier this year to fashion an immigration bill that would create a work visa program for illegal immigrants, which many conservatives thought didn't constitute "amnesty," the label they tagged to the Senate Republicans' guest worker bill...
Enrollment of foreign graduate students increased this fall—both at Harvard and across the nation—easing worries that post-Sept. 11 visa policies would deter overseas applicants from coming here. At Harvard, total enrollment of foreign graduate students increased 3 or 4 percent, said Ricardo Maldonado, assistant director for administration in the Harvard International Office. Foreign student enrollment rose 1 percent nationally, after three years of decline, while first-year enrollment of graduate students jumped 12 percent, according to a study released this week by the Council of Graduate Schools, a national organization dedicated...
...least of my worries as I arrived in Iraq for the first time last week. I had landed at Baghdad International Airport on Tuesday after an early flight from Amman, Jordan, over Iraq's barren western expanses as they caught the day's sunrise. After some visa haggling and a luggage wait upon landing, I was on the road into Baghdad, rolling along the same littered stretch where a friend of mine, aid worker Marla Ruzicka, lost her life to a suicide car bomber in April of 2005. It was a tense 20 minutes or so, but I would later...