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...It’s hard to let go of that safe little cab of my truck where I’m queen of the world,” she says. “But my life is moving forward in a different direction. This [program in Oxford] is the bridge...
...inside just in time to see Caroline, still trussed, wheeled past on a mobile bed and into a room. "Look," Kevin say, not squeamish but trying to consider what's best. "You don't need people here. Let me get out of your way." He goes to grab a cab, and though I know Caroline adores Uncle Kevin and would always want him around, I let him go-not least, because he's right...
...Internet and used them to exchange temporary mobile-phone numbers, the type that don't require registration. A reporter was told to enter a crowded restaurant as someone outside secretly watched. A taxi ride to a nearby market followed. On the far side of the market, a second cab was ready to drive to the safe house on the city's dusty outskirts. The two-bedroom apartment looked scarcely lived in. Its temporary dwellers slept on simple cots, sat on hard chairs. They had gathered to tell their stories: a middle-age doctor who had been confined to a mental...
...temporary mobile-phone number, the type that doesn't require registration, to a Falun Gong contact. He follows instructions to enter a crowded restaurant as someone outside secretly keeps watch. The coast is clear. He drives by taxi to a nearby market, walks through it, exits and finds another cab waiting to take him to the safe house. "We've figured out a system," says the organizer, "but we're amateurs and the government is professional." (Indeed, that person has since been arrested for other Falun Gong activities...
...Roosevelt liberal who has her feet firmly planted in the '40s." Maude knows how to arrange all the right-thinking enlightened attitudes around herself, but when she is challenged they open up like gunwales on a galleon, and she blazes away with broadsides at feckless repairmen, greedy cab drivers and her priggish right-wing neighbor...