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...Bomb is only one of the many student groups who have lost official status since October, the first deadline for submitting registration materials. Other groups include the Harvard College Middle East Review, the Harvard Ukrainian Society, and the Harvard College Mahjong Club...
...simple part of the journey. The snakehead then takes the person's passport. He says it's for safety - it's harder to deport someone without ID - but, clearly, holding the document gives him power over his clients. From Russia, the Fujianese cross the forested and poorly patrolled Ukrainian and Slovakian borders by foot at night. Then they are stuffed into a minivan - with up to 12 Chinese crouched in the back - for the trip into the Czech Republic...
...Passage through Eastern Europe is secured by Ukrainian and Vietnamese gangsters. "These routes used to be for drugs and weapons," says the snakehead, who does not accompany his clients on their journey. "Now they're for Chinese people, too." On average, the snakehead can sneak three people through the Czech Republic a month, but he says a network of traffickers from Sanming brings in a total of 1,400 Fujianese a year, in addition to 600 others from Zhejiang, another coastal Chinese province. "It's a good business, more lucrative than textiles," he says. "But if the people get caught...
...sometimes language is an issue. I had to buy three copies of Casino Royale until I got one in English. One evening my wife was happily enjoying The Holiday (a chick flick if there ever was one) when halfway through it Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, et al., started speaking Ukrainian...
...Both the instigator and probable beneficiary of the turmoil: Yushchenko's nemesis, Viktor Yanukovych, whose 2004 defeat was hailed by the West as a victory for democracy. Ironically, Yanukovych has used all the instruments of Ukrainian politics and democracy to undo Yushchenko's authority...