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...sphincters on a stick. Taiwanese madams oversee karaoke bar-brothels. Bemused new arrivals can get help with acclimation from books like the bestseller Shanghai Migrants, which advises that "a few thousand yuan a month will support a second wife, and that's a good deal because she'll also cook and clean...
...first surprise is that Kerry Max Cook escaped the coolly efficient clutches of the Texas death-penalty system. After 20 years behind bars, 13 of them spent on death row on a murder charge, Cook walked free in 1999 bearing horrifying tales of prosecutorial misconduct. The even bigger surprise is that lawmakers in Texas--which for years has put more people to death than any other state--have been listening to Cook's story and are considering a once unthinkable moratorium on executions...
...recently considered by a panel of lawmakers, "I heard them saying things like, 'How can it hurt?'" says Texas Defender Service lawyer Maurie Levin. "You would not have heard that in the last legislative session" two years ago. The moratorium bill won't pass this time, but stories like Cook's are helping change minds. After three trials involving prosecutorial misconduct, Cook agreed to plead no contest to a reduced murder charge in exchange for his freedom. Two months later DNA test results came back proving semen found on the victim came from her married lover. Cook is seeking...
...them agreed to have sex for money." The women told a different story. He met them in hostess clubs, invited them on dohans, drove them to the sea and lured them into his condominium using a variety of methods. He invited one woman over, offering to cook her dinner. He asked another to accompany him to a party later in the evening. In the meantime they could watch a Mariah Carey concert on TV at his condo. Another, he simply drove to his building and asked to help him carry up some boxes from...
...everyday scene, like a cook weighing flour in a kitchen. Not many women had baubles like these to gloat over. The clincher to its meaning hangs on the wall behind her: a Last Judgment scene, with the dead resurrecting under the presence of God in the sky. Their souls, the Bible says, will be weighed in the balance, that archetypal symbol of judgment whose tiny relative is held by the woman Vermeer has painted. As it is on earth, Vermeer insists, so it will be in heaven. But he's no spokesman for holy poverty. He is too much...