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...says that "all the government's witnesses are gangsters, thugs and criminals. They have serious credibility problems, and I look forward to cross-examining them." Chinese-language papers in New York say that when she lived in the city, her store was robbed on several occasions by gangs. Philip Lam, a real estate agent who once rented an office from Sister Ping, said he came to her one day to complain that gangs wanted protection money from him. "I have to pay too," she told him. When she returns for trial in August, the price may be higher than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two-Faced Woman | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

...RIVER WILD In this Rocky Mountain rafting movie, Meryl Streep's brood is terrorized by creepy criminals on the lam. What kind of mother is she? Doesn't she know that proper family vacations take place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nonswimmer's 25 Scariest Movies | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

...Buddy is narrated by Bud Caldwell, 10, who goes "on the lam" from an unpleasant foster home in Flint, Mich., in search of his father. Like his resourceful young hero, Curtis grew up in Flint. After graduating from high school, he joined the assembly line at Fisher Body Plant No. 1 and began writing during his breaks. He didn't set out to be a children's author. But, he says, "I felt I had a story to tell, and for some reason the voice came to me as a 10-year-old." Many years and several jobs later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best Buddy | 1/31/2000 | See Source »

...information-technology staff set up a generator-powered "war room" in the basement of the Time & Life Building, filled with computers and equipment ready to produce the magazine in case of a catastrophic breakdown of electricity and communications. "We even rented extra furniture," says creative services manager Kin Wah Lam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happy New Century! | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

Frankel's traveling companions eventually began to fall away, disillusioned with life on the lam, leaving Allison and him at the sparsely furnished Via Asmara apartments. "Marty used to ask me where we should go," Allison says. "He began to realize how small the world really is when everyone is looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Lam with Marty | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

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