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Richard followed Star with his own scheme to provide long-distance phone service to Asian businesses via satellite, but that went nowhere. In 1996 brother Victor was kidnapped by a criminal triad boss, and father Li paid a ransom estimated at more than $100 million. If that wasn't enough, Hong Kong went into recession after the Asian financial crisis hit in 1997, and the fortunes of the Li family, or at least the family's confidence in Hong Kong, seemed to be slipping...
...seven state primaries - some of them decisively - by soaking up the centrist and crossover vote, and polls show that those who voted for McCain continue to trust him more than either Bush or Gore. The word from the McCain camp is that he hasn't held his endorsement for ransom, but it hardly seems a coincidence that Bush has been speaking more and more about rehabbing the campaign finance system in recent weeks and has even championed a McCain-like proposal for enlisting retired military personnel to serve as teachers. It may only be a question of time before Bush...
What about that wordy ransom note, which included suspiciously personal details about the family? Walters quotes "law-enforcement sources" as saying the handwriting similarities between Patsy Ramsey and the note's author have been "grossly exaggerated." Walters leaves it at that, which is a bit out of context: police handwriting analysts never definitively claimed Mrs. Ramsey wrote the note, only that they eliminated every suspect...
...herder of cats," Ransom says. "The TFs will come to me, and I go to the professor. It seems to work real well...
...Ransom says his good working relationship with the course's other teaching staff allow him to exude the high level of enthusiasm necessary to excite students with varied interests in his science Core class...