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...really welcome permanent retirees but allow foreigners to stay part of the year. A country's embassy will help you find out the type of visa that might suit you. Be prepared to offer proof of good conduct and health as well as medical insurance. Some countries also demand a certain level of income. "There will be some bureaucracy to go through," warns Rosanne Knorr, author of The Grown-Up's Guide to Running Away from Home, "but it's all manageable...
Inside the chamber, the American elite assembled for the arguments that most legal scholars had predicted wouldn't come. It was quite a sight, as warring parties had to cram together in the 400-seat hall. (Court personnel said they hadn't seen Friday's frantic demand for seats since 1989, when a high-profile abortion case, Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, was argued.) Senator Edward Kennedy sat uncomfortably next to Barbara Olson, wife of Bush lawyer Theodore Olson and author of Hell to Pay, a vituperative book about Kennedy's new colleague Hillary Rodham Clinton. Gore adviser Warren Christopher...
Marnet would rather be a forklift driver than a cocaine trafficker. But Haiti has a lot more demand for the latter--especially in the northern port of Cap-Haitien, where Marnet, 29, watched this fall as his one honest meal ticket, the U.S. Army, shipped home the last of its intervention forces. "I may have to join my friends and be a welder," he said--not just any welder but a narco welder, who refits ships to hide drugs. Marnet walked to a cargo vessel, where two large generators powered the torches he said his pals were using to solder...
...appears to qualify for citizenship because his parents registered his birth at the Japanese consulate in Lima, and that datum was transferred, somehow, into the family registry in their home village in Japan. Immigration authorities were vague about all this, while diplomats prayed the new Peruvian government would not demand that Japan send Fujimori back to face charges. They don't want a Pinochet in their midst...
Michael Kimmel believes that once we begin to change the anti-intellectual current in our culture, market forces will help address the gender gap. "Eventually," he says, "men will start going back to college to meet the demand for an educated labor force." And surely more men will also be lured onto campuses by the realization that they'll be surrounded by smart, attractive women with great earnings prospects...