Word: ganges
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...Tiananmen Square crackdown created a boom in Ping's business. The amnesty granted by President George Bush to Chinese living in the U.S. established a huge legal population that could afford to pay to bring family and relatives over. As demand skyrocketed, larger criminal gangs learned that smuggling people was more profitable and legally less risky than smuggling drugs. Quickly the nature of the game changed. Gangs with bases in Hong Kong and China entered the field. Immigrants were recruited en masse, even if they couldn't afford a down payment. And when they couldn't keep up the payments...
Police say she paid the gangs to do her dirty work, and her indictment lists several instances of calls from her demanding ransom and the payment of ransom money for the release of immigrants who were being held until families or relatives paid their smuggling fee. Wong, however, believes her participation in gangs was coerced. He says Ah Kay at one point sent goons who threatened to destroy her restaurant if she didn't knuckle under to his gang. Ah Kay, who pleaded guilty to alien smuggling several years ago, is expected to testify against her. Her attorney Joel Cohen...
...keep coming back for more? Because every once in a while I get lucky. Like the night the gang stayed up late playing truth or dare. Or the times Eddie, the Long Island tough who lost a leg to cancer, tells anyone who will listen, "Chicks dig me. I dunno why." Or when Brittany, the pink-haired virgin, innocently persuaded Karen, the unhappy housewife, and Josh, the surfer heartthrob, to cuddle with her as a threesome in the "big bed of looove...
...just can't pull myself away. When Will, the charismatic troublemaker and former member of the New Black Panther Party, got the boot last Thursday, I promised myself that this would be the end. But 15 minutes later, I logged on one last time to see how the gang was faring. Next thing I knew, it was 5 a.m., and I was still glued to the screen. Clearly, I have a problem...
...days may be numbered. Susan seems ready to bolt the bloc, Kelly looks up for grabs, and now that the island's females have caught a fish, they've turned on him. Only Sean's alphabet-voting method - which was very humane, sure, until it drew Richard's gang to Jenna like sharks to blood - saved Richard's blurry butt this time...