Word: humanize
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...probably the best-known and most revered figure in Chinatown. Almost everyone in the Fujianese ghetto owed her something. She and her husband Cheung Yick-tak contributed $10,000 to buy the building that would house the Fujianese association, which police say soon became the center for human smuggling. He sat on the board. Both continued to work each day in the store or restaurant. There were no big cars or flashy clothes. When she traveled she took the subway, seemingly unafraid of the reach...
...sometimes killed. To accommodate the demand, snakeheads pooled resources and bought old unseaworthy ships and stuffed the holds with people who would spend months at sea in horrific conditions. During one month in 1993, at least 25 ships, carrying thousands of 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...
...America because the investigation of the Golden Venture was getting close to her. She fled to her native village of Shengmei, which had benefited from the years she spent becoming an American success story. Shortly after arriving there she learned she had been indicted in the U.S. for human smuggling and illegal money transfers...
Even Steven Wong, the anti-snakeheads activist who has worked with the Coast Guard interviewing survivors of smuggling trips, says Ping was never like the other snakeheads. "I have no doubt she is a good person," he says. "The Fujianese don't see human smuggling as a crime. They see it as a necessary service. When the gangs took over, Sister Ping argued that those who were coming had paid money and should be treated fairly, as clients, not prisoners." He says he once interviewed her and she claimed she only helped her relatives come to the U.S. "I have...
...another tabloid week for the Olympic movement. At the track-and-field trials in Sacramento, Calif., sprinters Michael Johnson and Maurice Green moved their gums as fast as their legs, trading insults at a record pace. On the human-interest front, there was Marla Runyan, legally blind, qualifying for the team at 1,500 m, and Gabe Harmony Jennings, a happy eccentric from Forks of Salmon, Calif., announcing himself as a miler to be reckoned with. Finally there was Magnificent Marion Jones qualifying for what seemed to be every event...