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Well, whatever; if a little fudging allows NBC to soak a few more dollars out of Visa for its annoying ads, more power to them. But NBC has hardly solved its problem. The factors dragging down its ratings - tape delays, too many up-close-and- personals, results being reported by an increasingly fast media (online and off) - will still be there (in the case of online media, tenfold) when NBC returns to Athens in 2004. The halcyon days when results were padlocked by a benign media dictatorship are over, thankfully. NBC's real problem is believing that its ratings have...
...prepare for last week's city council meeting, the campaign leaders prepared scenarios following eight immigrants from entry to citizenship. The routes to naturalization ranged from five to 25 years, for a Liberian refugee on a student visa...
...jail without ever being tried or formally charged with a crime. He had been a translator for Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, who was convicted in 1995 of conspiring to blow up the U.N. building. The FBI claimed that Ahmed, who had been arrested in 1996 for overstaying his visa, had relayed a message from Abdel-Rahman that sparked a terrorist bombing in Egypt. As in the case of Wen Ho Lee, Ahmed was held without being shown the evidence against him; all the government needed was for a judge to agree that freeing him would put the nation's security...
...time. Many evangelists openly compete for Chinese converts, posting tallies on websites of how many souls they've saved--a somewhat questionable estimate, since most Americans don't speak the same language as the people they profess to be converting. Religious travel agencies guide devotees through tricky visa applications and advise them to elude the police by immediately boarding a train after blanketing a town with religious material. Evangelists are taught to speak in code, referring to the Bible as "bread" and God as "the boss." "You can't be too careful," says Joe Deng, who has made some...
Despite a prohibition against travelers' deplaning without a visa, Albright breezily suggested aides get off and stretch their legs. As stern-looking border guards in drab green uniforms stood watch, two of Albright's top staff members were dispatched to ask permission politely for all to get off the aircraft. Nyet was the official reply. So Albright, the former professor and Democratic Party player, decided to teach the hard-liners about hardball politics. She marched down the stairs, greeting the surprised guards with a few choice Russian words; they let her pass. She suggested she might dial up old chum...