Word: ah
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...Ah, I'm getting carried away. But in times of peace and prosperity, this is what passes for a clarion call. And this is the sort of domestic tinkering - a standards test in every pot! A prescription in every medicine cabinet! - that George W. Bush and Al Gore are offering up in the national TV ad campaigns each launched this week...
...Colleen. She of the tousled hair and the winsome smile, the disarmingly hippiesh philosophizing and yes, the skimpy, skintight wardrobe. And - ugh - of those festering leg sores with the bugs living in them, which have hopefully healed in the months since the 4-2 vote actually happened. Ah, Colleen. The world of island-based reality game shows was not made for one so beautiful...
...During one month in 1993, at least 25 ships, carrying thousands of immigrants, set off from Fujian crammed with human cargo. One of them was the Golden Venture, a dilapidated freighter that had been won in a poker game by Gu Liang-chi, who went by the street name Ah Kay, the leader of a Fujianese street gang that controlled East Broadway. According to U.S. government charges, Ah Kay, Sister Ping and several other snakeheads loaded the ill-fated hulk with immigrants. When it ran aground in the icy, turbulent waters off New York in June...
...dirty work, and her indictment lists several instances of calls from her demanding ransom and the payment of ransom money for the release of immigrants who were being held until families or relatives paid their smuggling fee. Wong, however, believes her participation in gangs was coerced. He says Ah Kay at one point sent goons who threatened to destroy her restaurant if she didn't knuckle under to his gang. Ah Kay, who pleaded guilty to alien smuggling several years ago, is expected to testify against her. Her attorney Joel Cohen says that "all the government's witnesses are gangsters...
...Ah, privatization. How the invisible hand of competition can force efficiency on the laggard ways of government. Well, that was the way it was supposed to go for Louisiana's juvenile-prison system. But it didn't work out, and now even some Republicans, the champions of privatization, are backing away from the idea. "The profit motive works well in some places," says Republican Governor Mike Foster. "I don't think it works well in prisons...