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...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...
...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...
MICHAEL SKAKEL Classmate tells court Kennedy cousin confessed. Ah, those old school ties...
...Ah," he says, "good...
...Ah, full disclosure time, when close readers of the news can find out which of those fat cats in Washington are really fat and which are just overpaid. This year's theme: How To Get Rich in the Markets Without Quitting Your Day Job as a Public Servant...