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...average L.A. auditioners taking the morning sunshine by standing in a never-ending line wrapped around a studio. The ages seemed to range from late teens to early septuagenarians, with the majority being Gen X-ers in their late 20s and early 30s. Many were well prepared for the ordeal. I saw auditioners applying suntan lotion in varying SP factors, drinking bottled water sporting various designer labels, and several comfort-loving individuals who had brought portable beach chairs and recliners to help them endure what looked like a three-hour wait. They did not look like hardy types ready...
...ordeal began as she, her son Andrew, 5, and her husband Xue Donghua approached the Northwest Airlines counter at Beijing airport on Feb. 11 to return from a three-week vacation. Suddenly, some 15 plainclothes security agents appeared and separated the family. "We didn't even have a chance to look at each other," says Xue. The agents blindfolded Xue and drove him to a house where they interrogated him for 26 days. On March 8 they took him to Andrew, who, because of the abrupt and prolonged break, did not recognize him at first. "He was looking...
...ordeal began as she, her son Andrew, 5, and her husband Xue Donghua approached the Northwest Airlines counter at Beijing airport on Feb. 11 to return from a three-week vacation. Suddenly, some 15 plainclothes security agents appeared and separated the family. "We didn't even have a chance to look at each other," says Xue. The agents blindfolded Xue and drove him to a house where they interrogated him for 26 days. On March 8 they took him to Andrew, who, because of the abrupt and prolonged break, did not recognize him at first. "He was looking...
...experience of applying for passports in their native Wuhan has been decidedly sour. What should have been a simple matter of filling out a few forms and paying a $24 processing fee has become a Kafkaesque ordeal. In October the entry and exit section of their local police station told them they needed to secure permission from their work unit. The work unit chief declined to grant them leave without the permission of the local police. When they went to the Wuhan Ministry of Public Security to ask for an explanation, a political protection officer curtly told them they were...
...presence does not guarantee a complication-free birth, but the emotional support she provides can be invaluable. Ann Grauer's doula was with her in Milwaukee, Wis., when doctors told her that the child she was about to deliver would be stillborn. Her doula consoled her throughout the painful ordeal. Says Grauer: "It was amazing the peace of mind my doula was able to give me." The same doula was there later for the birth of her son. "It was such a celebration. We are still very close...