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...With the Jangs, Beijing initially acted tough, refusing for three days to let the family go. The government finally allowed them to leave with the excuse that they needed foreign medical care. It's the latest chapter in a dramatic ordeal for the family. Fifteen members had crossed the border to China by 1999. One boy, Jang Gil Su, then acquired anonymous fame through his crayon depictions of life in North Korea. The simple, cartoon-like pictures showed confessions from prisoners and a starving man cooking human body parts in a big pot. Smuggled into South Korea and published...
...able to sue in federal court under existing law--a federal statute bans placing riders on policies because of pre-existing conditions--but it's costly and time consuming, and all I could win is the cost of treatment. And a lawsuit isn't the point. During my ordeal I didn't seek legal advice; I was too busy coping with a lumpectomy. I needed a forum in which to challenge the insurer. Under McCain-Edwards-Kennedy, I would get one. I would be able to demand an arbitration hearing about the company's decision, plead my case before...
...begged her to disavow her beliefs. Her husband smacked her. At work, her boss threatened to fire her. Then someone brought her weeping daughter to jail, and Liu's will broke. She promised in writing never to demonstrate against the government and for Falun Gong again. She thought her ordeal was over...
...Huang did what few other Taiwanese in her position had ever done: she fought back. In an emotional press conference, she berated the goons and demanded the authorities take swift, merciless action. The move made her an instant celebrity, with newspapers printing running accounts of her ordeal. The public huffed. Politicians puffed. And, after some delay, a posse of high-ranking police officers was dispatched to tackle the case. The hostage-takers fled and on Sept. 4, more than four weeks into her nightmare, Huang was able to retrieve her sister...
...Throughout this entire ordeal, Shira maintained a constantly positive and hopeful attitude,” wrote Michael A. Kay ’01, Shira’s fellow co-chair of the dramatic society, in an e-mail...