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...experience of applying for passports in their native Wuhan has been decidedly sour. What should have been a simple matter of filling out a few forms and paying a $24 processing fee has become a Kafkaesque ordeal. In October the entry and exit section of their local police station told them they needed to secure permission from their work unit. The work unit chief declined to grant them leave without the permission of the local police. When they went to the Wuhan Ministry of Public Security to ask for an explanation, a political protection officer curtly told them they were...
...That was in November. Meng still has had no news. She had intended to spend these weeks planning the special dinner she would cook for graduation night. Instead, like Tong , she's studying law, poring over exit-entry regulations, searching for a way to convince the authorities to let her make the trip?so she can do nothing more radical than bask in her daughter's achievements...
...play is winding down for Mori and the LDP big shots. They need to shove an essential budget bill through the lower house of the Diet by March 2. After that, it will be time for Mori to exit the stage. By March 13, when the LDP holds a general meeting, Mori will?somehow, some way?be deposed. And a successor will be selected. But as usual the work will have been done in private, at expensive restaurants?behind those decorative screens. Says Kenji Gato, a senior political reporter in Tokyo: "When the curtain is raised on the LDP meeting...
...only found out a couple of weeks after the fact while browsing an obscure area of ESPN.com. After I read the Associated Press brief on his exit, I sat back and thought for a bit. Ultimately, I came to the admittedly odd conclusion that no single athlete is as responsible for my love of sport today as Sergei Bubka, the world's greatest pole vaulter...
Chat with Andrew Goldstein about the Clinton exit scandals on America Online at 7 p.m. E.T. Wednesday. Keyword: Live