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...native of St. Petersberg, Florida, Bassett, 34, went to Yale Drama School and spent most of her first professional decade shuttling unnoticed between Broadway (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom), television (Tour of Duty) and movies (John Sayles' City of Hope). The roles grew meatier -- she played the mother of a troubled ghetto youth in Boyz 'N the Hood and Michael Jackson's mom in abc's The Jacksons: An American Dream -- but she still labored in the shadows until Tina thrust her onto center stage...
...encouraged by the snakeheads -- who then link them with underground networks. Most of the arrangements are done by international crime syndicates, which cut deals with desperate families, then draw up the escape plan, procure the forged documents and furnish the transportation. One kingpin of the racket is Big Boss Ma (not his real name), a Thai gangster of Chinese descent who funnels mainland Chinese through Bangkok. Seated in the lotus position on a teak sofa at home in Mae Sai, a northern Thai town, Big Boss exudes confidence and affluence. His gold front tooth glimmers as he speaks...
...pages long, which is the main fact they seem to have absorbed about it. That, plus Kasich's claim to reduce the deficit by as much as Clinton proposes over five years, only with no tax increase, with half the cuts in defense that Clinton is proposing, and (Look Ma, no hands!) without touching the sacrosanct Social Security...
...allow people of "genius and learning to cultivate the arts and sciences in the new nation." Considered one of the most prestigious scholarly institutions, its membership is heavily academic. Along with Hughes, only 15 people in the fine-arts fields were elected this year -- among them cellist Yo Yo Ma, choreographer Jerome Robbins and sculptor Richard Serra...
...short while later, down a blood-soaked hallway in Dartmouth, MA, Gator Collet's wish was granted as Jason Robinson's short life came to a painful and messy...