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...Elian Gonzalez battle may hurt Miami's Cuban exile leadership even if they win. The six-year-old boy's Miami relatives on Wednesday petitioned a federal court for political asylum for Elian, but in order to get their day in court they'll have to convince a judge that they speak for the boy. "They're trying to convince a federal judge that the boy would be in danger if he's returned to live in a communist society, and that the boy's father - who wants him back in Cuba - is speaking under duress," says TIME's Miami...
...enforcing immigration accords more stringently. Those require that the U.S. send back any Cuban rafter intercepted at sea. But Washington has indulged--and Havana has railed at--a loophole known as the "wet feet, dry feet" rule, which allows any Cuban who makes it onto U.S. soil to claim asylum. That has only encouraged illegal balseros--rafters like Elian and his mother--to attempt the voyage across the straits. U.S. immigration officials in Miami tell TIME that "wet feet, dry feet" may come under serious review...
...case, Elian won't be going anywhere before January 18, when a federal court hears a challenge by his Florida family to the Immigration and Naturalization Service ruling that the boy should be returned to the custody of his father. The INS Friday rejected a second application for asylum on Elian's behalf, on the grounds that only Juan Gonzalez is his legal guardian and has the sole right to speak for the child. Still, that's not going to stop the Florida Gonzalez family, the Cuban-American activist community and conservative Republican lawmakers from fighting tooth and nail...
...storm the plane, but after Pakistan intervened, the Taliban suddenly surrounded the plane with men and armored vehicles and forbade an Indian attack." As the hijackers left Kandahar airport accompanied by the prisoners whose release they'd won, the Taliban promised India that they wouldn't be given asylum, and would have to leave Afghanistan within 10 hours. Then again, the Taliban periodically say Osama Bin Laden's left...
...walk down some of the hallways in the MAC and it looks like an asylum, with its painted-over windows and exposed pipe fixtures," Watson says. "It's disgusting. I really don't see Harvard doing much to promote the fitness of its students...