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...them, with a Chinese driver. The snakeheads' far-flung networks had delivered. The driver drove them through the night to a large city, which Chen discovered was Houston, though he had only the vaguest idea of U.S. geography. All he had was the telephone number of a distant cousin in someplace called Flushing...
...agents, armed with 9-mm MP5 submachine guns, looked first for Elian's cousin Marisleysis, assuming she would be the one to lead them to Elian. "Where the f------- is the damn boy?" Marisleysis says they shouted at her. She begged them to hold off, she says. "I will give you the boy; just put the guns down!" As they raced through the rest of the house, the agents knocked over a statue of the Virgin Mary and a huge picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the living room. Finally, they kicked their way into the bedroom, breaking...
...they did, in their midst. Hit by storms, low on food and water, even attacked by a killer whale, the men began dying and the survivors ate the remains. Pollard's 18-year-old cousin was sacrificed after a drawing of lots. When they were rescued, after three months adrift, only eight of the Essex's 21 men were alive...
...another surprise guest, there's no shame in the runaway game. Jane, for one, hits the road, bums it up, meets long-lost missionary relatives and inherits a fortune. Next to diamonds, a few thousand pounds a year is a girl's best friend. Soon, however, Jane's chilly cousin Reverend Rivers proposes marriage with the promise of a lifetime honeymoon spent preaching to unenlightened savages of India. While a man of the cloth suggests some stability, marrying your cousin just isn't cool. Nobody's fool, Jane shoots him down and hightails it to Thornfield, where she finds...
Despite all the hysteria and controversy surrounding Elian Gonzalez, most Americans are inclined to believe that it all boils down to a simple right of custody, that his best interests lie with his father--not his great uncle, Lazaro, or his cousin and proclaimed surrogate mother Marisleysis. This argument might be pertinent, if the boy were staying in the United States. But what exactly does it mean for Elian to go home with his father to Cuba...