This news story is about a Turkish physician whose visa extension hit some snags at BCIS until his congressman intervened. I think it shows how arbitrary of the immigration process in the US is and how much depends on the specific immigration officer examining your case. An impressive career, a 1,000-page visa application and 10… Continue reading Immigration Arbitrariness
Popular Posts
I have added two different ways of looking at popular posts on the sidebar. One looks at my webserver logs and selects the posts who individual entry archive pages have been visited the most in the past 3 days. (Extension to longer times is possible if I knew Perl. [UPDATE: Used a nasty solution to… Continue reading Popular Posts
Kashmir Photos
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Plame Affair
You probably already know about the leaking of a CIA operative’s name by administration officials. It has become a big story as a result of CIA request for an investigation. At CIA Director George J. Tenet’s request, the Justice Department is looking into an allegation that administration officials leaked the name of an undercover CIA… Continue reading Plame Affair
Blog Visits
Visits Per Month September 2003 is the first month I have gotten more than 5,000 visits. The number of visitors to my weblog has been increasing a lot recently. I switched to Movable Type in mid-May and it was then that the decline of my blog was averted. In other news, I have had visitors… Continue reading Blog Visits
Nepotism?
Is this nepotism or is it just a small world? Douglas J. Feith is undersecretary of defense for policy. His former firm has recently established a task force dealing with issues and opportunities relating to the recently ended war with Iraq. …[It] is assisting regional construction and logistics firms to collaborate with contractors from the… Continue reading Nepotism?
I am Back
So I am back in Atlanta. The trip back is always much worse than the trip out. But such is life. We watched Secondhand Lions and Matchstick Men. Both are good entertaining movies.
Going Home
I am going home now for the weekend. Will be back sunday evening. Hopefully with more regular blogging.
Bhangra
May be this will make Britney Spears’ music better: Britney Spears has turned to Indian bhangra rhythms for her comeback song out later this year. The song features Spears singing and rapping over music and rhythms from rural India and has been remixed by British Asian producer Rishi Rich – himself celebrating a top 20… Continue reading Bhangra
Blogging and Politics Paper
Dan Drezner and Henry Farrell are writing an academic paper on power and politics of blogs. They are soliciting some help. If you’re a journalist, columnist, commentator, producer, or editor for a newspaper, magazine, or television station, we’d appreciate your help. We’d be grateful if you could take two minutes to send an email to… Continue reading Blogging and Politics Paper