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...snakeheads were not finished with Chen anyway. After a day in Houston, he was driven to Los Angeles, locked in a room and told to phone his family in Fujian for the passage money. The price had suddenly increased because of the Chinese who died or were arrested en route. The snakeheads now demanded $50,000 for delivering Chen to the U.S. That represented a fortune, more than 30 years' earnings for Chen back in Fujian. The amount was not negotiable...
...comrades had no idea where they were. They had little choice but to hunker down and eat the unfamiliar Mexican food they were served. Chen picked up a few Spanish words, notably cigarrillos; cigarettes were his only antidote to the tension. At New Year's the anxious band was driven north to a town full of bars near the border, only to wait some more, presumably while the coyotes contacted accomplices on the U.S. side of the border. On Jan. 10 they headed out on foot across the desert...
Arnault has built an empire on the premise that high fashion is a marketing tool for selling handbags, shoes, makeup and bottles of J'adore. He views the gaudy, celebrity-driven Paris collections as spendy advertisements for his handbags and scents. No other design house has harnessed its collections so firmly to the task of moving mountains of leather and tubs of cosmetics...
Another draw is boxing's promise, however distant, of a full-time career. Manson, now on a work-release program related to a drug charge, remains driven to turn pro to show inner-city neighbors "I made something of myself." Vitiello last month launched Girls First, a New York-based nonprofit foundation to train and sponsor would-be Smokes and Butterflies...
...deal. By midnight the feds had put a nine-point plan on the table: Lazaro and his family would hand over Elian to the government at 3:30 a.m. at the federal courthouse in Miami; the family would be put up at a hotel under guard and driven the next day to Washington. (The relatives claimed they didn't want Elian to fly. Justice officials assumed someone else in the family had a fear of flying, but agreed to chauffeur them to Washington anyway.) Once in Washington, Juan Miguel would be reunited with Elian, and the two families would live...