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...female immigrant who patronized Ping's service: "The Bank of China took three weeks, charged a bad foreign-exchange rate and delivered the cash in yuan. Sister Ping delivered the money in hours, charged less and paid in American dollars. It was a better service." Steven Wong, an outspoken critic of snakeheads, says that things became so bad that the bank began offering color televisions and prizes to those who used them to transfer money. "Still," he says, "no one came...
DIED. WILLIAM WHYTE, 86, reform-minded sociologist whose 1943 book on Italian-American gangs, Street Corner Society, became a best seller; in Ithaca, N.Y. A prolific and outspoken author, Whyte taught at Cornell University and, despite having suffered from polio, conducted extensive fieldwork...
DIED. ROBERT RUNCIE, 78, outspoken Archbishop of Canterbury in the 1980s who criticized Margaret Thatcher and angered Prince Charles and Diana by recounting private conversations with them to his biographer, and whose efforts to improve relations with Rome led the Pope, in 1982, to pray with him in the cathedral where Thomas a Becket was murdered in 1170; in Hertfordshire, England...
Among the most outspoken was Kathy Lloyd, a Head Start teacher, whose sister, Shawn McClenahan, 37, had been found by a jogger on a weedy hillside the day after Christmas...
...loading their muskets. Reformers plan to gather Monday to pick which issue on their long list will drive their next ambush. DeLay has vowed to keep fighting just as hard to support groups like the Republican Majority Issues Coalition. "They're not going to intimidate me," said the outspoken whip. So, despite all the celebration, no one is calling for fireworks just yet. Unless they're for battle...