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...what's really needed, critics of the status quo say, is even tougher laws and more resources aimed at tightening up border security. Reformers are calling for a rollback of rules that hamstring law enforcement, like a visitor-friendly 45-min. cap on how long arriving passengers can be inspected when they arrive in the U.S., mandated by Congress in more carefree times. They also want the INS to hire hundreds more border patrol agents and investigators to keep illegal immigrants out and to track them down once they're here. Reformers also want...
Arafat had one friendly visitor last week--an Israeli at that. Tamar Gozansky, a member of the Israeli Parliament from the leftist Hadash Party, met with him Tuesday evening in Ramallah. Arafat was in a somber spirit, she said, quiet and tired. He told her he thought Israel was exploiting the deeds of Hamas and Islamic Jihad to destroy him. Arafat smiled only once, Gozansky said; that was when she told him she hadn't given up her belief in the peace process. It wasn't clear whether he grinned in appreciation, or out of amusement at her naivete...
...inhabitants, perhaps, decided long ago what they thought of him. But with a quick nod to those who remain convinced that the whole performance was a fake, there's no substitute for the real thing. The videotape shown last week of bin Laden, his colleagues and a visitor from Saudi Arabia discussing, with evident pleasure, the attacks of Sept. 11 provided a peek into the world of terrorism of a kind that can be matched by no other form of reporting...
Late last year, Rudy Giuliani was sitting in the library at Gracie Mansion, offering career advice to a visitor--billionaire media mogul Michael Bloomberg. The financial-data tycoon was thinking about changing jobs. Among the possibilities he'd been mulling: President of the United States, Secretary-General of the United Nations and--his top choice--mayor of New York City, and never mind that he had no experience in government. Giuliani could see he was serious about the third idea. A lifelong Democrat, Bloomberg intended to switch parties in order to have a clear shot at the Republican nomination. Giuliani...
...Shaolin is now one of China's most popular tourist destinations and impoverished Henan's most reliable cash cow. The temple drew more than a million visitors last year. For $5 they get a tour of the spruced-up shrine with a local guide well-versed in its elaborately embroidered history. Picturesquely decrepit old-timers man donation boxes at each stop along the way, and then it's off to buy tiny brass Buddhas and plastic prayer beads at stalls crowding the temple's gates. For martial arts displays, a lucky visitor might spot a young boy in a monk...