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...Chang said Lin came to Boston on July 8 with a mutual friend—but only en route did Lin reveal that he had no intention of returning home. Lin arrived in Boston with no place to stay and scant funds, Chang said...
...Chang said she was told by her friend on July 9 that Lin had spent the day attempting to check into area homeless shelters, only to be turned away because he was not yet 18 and could not sign himself in. She said she felt obligated to let Lin stay in her room overnight...
...things that matter in the Taiwan underworld: money and firepower," says Ko-lin Chin, a Rutgers University professor who has written extensively about Taiwan's organized crime. "They won't hand over what they need for their survival." True enough. When police in southern Taiwan closed in on fugitive Chang Hsi-ming and three members of his kidnapping ring last week, they were attacked with assault rifles; the criminals held off as many as 1,000 officers for five hours. Four cops were wounded. Chang, who ultimately escaped, was last seen forcing a hostage into a getaway car, toting...
...popular-movie split at Cannes. Tsui Hark is invited to serve on the jury; yet not one of his (or any other Hong Kong maestro's) action movies ever appeared in the competition. Nor did exceptional films by India's Mani Ratnam, Japan's Takashi Miike and Korea's Chang Yoon Hyun. It seems not to have occurred to Cannes that a continent containing nearly half the world's population?and many of its most avid moviegoers?might be producing some movies worth watching, and cheering, at an international film festival...
...Chang attributed his award to the students in his section...