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...visible halo, but the stocky, uneducated Chinese woman is a saint to thousands. For 13 years Cheng Chui-ping sold clothes and cheap eats along East Broadway in New York City's Chinatown. During lunch hours she would chop vegetables, wash dishes and wait on tables at a restaurant that served dishes from her native Fujian province. Occasionally she could be seen tottering down the street struggling with bales of clothes, dragging them into her general-merchandise store. But to many she was a veritable goddess, dispensing both mercy and fortune. Her devotees called her Dajie Ping--Big Sister Ping...
After getting out of prison she moved to 47 East Broadway, paying $3 million in cash, according to government sources, for a building directly across the street from a branch of the Bank of China, Beijing's central bank. She set up her restaurant in the building, and it quickly became a hub of the illegal Fujian Chinese community. It also became a major competitor of the bank. According to police and a number of Ping's clients, she used her connections in China to begin transferring money from those she smuggled back to their families in China. She proved...
...immigrants, set off from Fujian crammed with human cargo. One of them was the Golden Venture, a dilapidated freighter that had been won in a poker game by Gu Liang-chi, who went by the street name Ah Kay, the leader of a Fujianese street gang that controlled East Broadway. According to U.S. government charges, Ah Kay, Sister Ping and several other snakeheads loaded the ill-fated hulk with immigrants. When it ran aground in the icy, turbulent waters off New York in June 1993, 10 of the 300 passengers perished trying to escape the ship. As it turned...
KATHIE LEE I don't have a specific address. It's more a state of mind that I'm looking for. This past year has been thrilling to me on a creative basis, from Broadway [Putting It Together] to the album I just did [Born for You]. I want to spend more time being that fulfilled creatively. I also did an episode of Touched by an Angel about a woman who's committing suicide. The angel Monica saves her life. Cody [Gifford's 10-year-old son] immediately said, "Oh, rats." He wanted me to jump. I said, "Cody...
...acoustic slack-key guitar (resting on the lap, it is played with one hand manipulating the strings and the other moving a steel bar). He then adapted the Hawaiian style to almost every form of music percolating through vaudeville, speakeasies and grange halls. He was as comfortable playing Broadway songs, New Orleans jazz and country laments as he was his native tunes. And with versatility went a distinctive instrumental voice, one that smiles at the extra few notes he tosses into a melodic line, at the weird mix of sliding tones and pizzicato panache...