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...High-profile scandals haven't helped. Last April, returnee Huynh Quoc Quang was sentenced to life in prison for bilking people out of at least $10,000 with false promises of American work visas. The following month, police began chasing Ho Tran Lap, a Viet Kieu businessman accused of running an illegal long-distance calling service; he's still on the lam. And on Jan. 16, a Vietnamese-American who runs a company in Ho Chi Minh City that makes brushes and combs was stabbed in the forehead?the result, police suspect, of a business dispute...
...what seals the deal. Kirk, who majored in art at the Cleveland Institute of Art, paints Miss Spider's rotund little body and curlicue hair in bold, almost hallucinatory colors, with outsize eyes and eyelashes and her world in equally poppy hues--just garish and cutesy enough that children lap it up. And not only children. Miss Spider moved from moderately well known fictional character to pop-cultural boldface name when Madonna read Tea Party at a nightclub event that was broadcast live on MTV in 1995. Suddenly the divine Miss S. was a favorite of college kids and found...
...lost at least once. Then she walked outside and hailed a cab. "I went, 'Whew!' and collapsed in the back seat," Rowley remembers. She headed back to the airport, secure in the comfort that comes from taking a steaming load of worry and shifting it onto the boss's lap. Says her husband: "I remember her saying, 'I hope somebody reads...
...captain John Traugott has always been willing to go the extra mile to win for the Harvard men’s track team. So in Saturday’s 96-48 season-opening win over Boston College, he had no trouble when he was forced to run an extra lap...
...typical 1000-meter race, meet officials ring a bell to indicate the start of the fifth and final lap. But on Saturday, the bell rang at the actual finish, so all the runners—led by Traugott—continued...