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4/12/2004
10:08:47 am EDT
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Homeland Security As Literary Critic
Author: Corpus Christi Caller-Times Source: Corpus Christi Caller-Times (TX)
Title: HOMELAND SECURITY AS LITERARY CRITIC
In tightening our borders, we seem to be keeping out people we want to come here - tourists, business travelers, scientists, authors. One of those is Ian McEwan, a best- selling British author and winner of prestigious literary prizes. He is a favorite of Laura Bush and he and the first lady dined together in London during a presidential visit.
U.S. immigration officials in Vancouver barred him from visiting the U.S. recently because they mistakenly believed he had the wrong kind of visa. Clearly, the Department of Homeland Security needs to start recruiting some English majors to its ranks. McEwan said one of his interrogators asked, "What kind of novels do you write: fiction or nonfiction."
And after 36 hours and the intervention of the State department, the British government, an immigration lawyer and two members of Congress, McEwan was admitted to the country, grudgingly.
McEwan made his first lecture with minutes to spare. He acknowledged Homeland Security's vigilance in "protecting the American public from British novelists."
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| Laugh Or Cry . . | Apr 12th. at 9:05:03 pm EDT |
by KarEEna (Perth, Australia) - wc_xemail
Oh gods. I dont know whether to laugh or cry. This sort of thing is happening WAY too often. And that guy got let of light . . . . the article didnt mention anything about him being handcuffed, left to starve for hours on end, refused admittance to a toilet and treated like a criminal just because he asked what was going on as so many of those stories include.
I shudder to think what my Australian husband is going to have to go through next time we actually have the money to visit my family. We are living here now and I'm considering (when I am eligable) naturalizing and maintaining dual citizenship. My husband has mentioned that he might like to do the same with America as it will make it easier for us to move between the countries for work, etc. The more I read, however, the less I like his chances of even getting a visa to LIVE in America for a period of time despite the fact that he's married to me, an American citizen! At this rate, our future children will be interrogated as to why they are both American and Australian as if it was their choice!
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| Yet More Laughs From The Kingdom Of George II | Apr 12th. at 5:19:49 pm EDT |
by Owlglass (Albuquerque, NM) - wc_xemail
Okay, let's see if I've got this straight: bestselling British novelists: can't get a visa. Palestinian Muslims who want to take flying lessons but have no interest in learning how to land: no problem! Come on in!
Blessed Goddess. I don't know what drugs these people are on, but I don't want any.
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| I Know A Way... | Apr 12th. at 1:14:13 pm EDT |
by Michael R. (AZ) - wc_xemail
for McEwan to get a red-carpet welcome into the U.S. whenever he wants it: all he has to do is pose as a foreign athlete who doesn't speak a word of English but who's great at throwing touchdown passes or hitting home runs. He should NEVER mention anything about being a writer (ideas are bad; they scare people) .
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| Riotous! | Apr 12th. at 12:54:52 pm EDT |
by Mike Welch (Sarasota, Florida, USA) - wc_xemail
...and they can take that fictionally or literally...if it isn't too much of a "leap" for their dimunitive neural synapses. *boink*
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| Well At Least... | Apr 12th. at 12:52:15 pm EDT |
by epona (Vancouver, BC, Canada) - wc_xemail
they're still letting Canadians through. My grandparents recently went down to their summer cabin in Washington after my grandfather had had his heart examination. He was still radioactive and set off the geiger counters, and it was a few hours before they ascertained that he was in fact merely a man with heart problems, not a walking bomb, but at least they laughed about it afterwards, and told him he'd be 'hot' for another day or two.
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