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...people say if you want to go abroad and get a visa for Canada or citizenship and be a millionaire, get yourself raped." PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, Pakistan's President, in an interview with the Washington Post, in which he claimed that rape has become a "money-making concern" for its victims and that his country is being unfairly singled out for violence against women. He later said the Post had misquoted and misinterpreted...
Instead, the Crimson (0-1-0) lost two of its offensive stars—junior Matt Hoff and sophomore Mike Fucito—to a year off. In addition, junior midfielder Tom Stapleton is having trouble with his visa to get back into the United States from England...
...diminutive, commanding basketball coach from the former Soviet Union, who built the team that gave the U.S. its first Olympic defeat in that sport in 1972; in Moscow. Ironically, the bespectacled Gomelsky wasn't present for his team's most famous win as he had been denied a visa by Soviet authorities fearful he might defect at the Munich games. DIED. BROTHER ROGER, 90, humble, ecumenical theologian who attracted tens of thousands of young followers to his spiritual center in southern France to participate in prayer circles and chants; of stab wounds inflicted by a mentally disturbed woman; in Taiz?...
...diminutive, commanding basketball coach from the former Soviet Union who built the team that in 1972 gave the U.S. its first Olympic defeat in that sport; of cancer; in Moscow. Ironically, the bespectacled Gomelsky wasn't at his team's most famous win because he had been denied a visa by Soviet authorities fearful he might defect at the Munich Games...
...second-generation European Muslims--most of them European Union citizens--who are a security risk. "As E.U. citizens, they're eligible for U.S. visa waivers, which means they can represent a direct threat to the U.S.," says Robert Leiken of the Nixon Center, a Washington-based foreign policy think tank founded by the former President. "Local groups that are already in place, that grew up in Western Europe and can conduct surveillance for multiple bombings without arousing a great deal of suspicion--this can be an enormous problem." Right now the FBI has no evidence of any hard-core...