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...government, however, Big Sister Ping is a big-time crook and people smuggler. She may have puttered around the Yung Sun restaurant and the Tak Shun variety store, but federal investigators say she also ran a global crime network that netted her more than $40 million, made her a major competitor of China's central bank, helped her corrupt foreign government officials and changed the face of New York City. For years, law enforcement called her the Mother of All Snakeheads, a leader of the species of international gangsters who specialize in the brutal trade in humans from China...
Almost single-handedly, according to the police, she put the pieces of a global smuggling network together, at first making the trip to China herself and acting as guide to small groups, using Mexico, Belize and other Central American states as staging points. Police say she did it by buying off corrupt immigration, tourist and other officials, using fake or purchased papers and then transshipping immigrants to America. She charged a small down payment, and hopefuls promised to borrow the rest of the money upon arrival from families already in the U.S. Those who couldn't pay were found jobs...
Quality is the DNA of NBC," intoned the network's West Coast president, Scott Sassa, to TV critics in Pasadena, Calif., last week. The issue Sassa was obliquely addressing amounted to this: Why does NBC suddenly look...
...Millionaire 24 hours a day last August, had a quasi-documentary series called Making the Band this spring. But NBC does not have a single example of that oxymoron "reality TV" on the air. Nothing to try out this summer. Nothing for the fall, either. The peacock network is momentarily without feathers--and so desperate that it seems ready to import Chains of Love, a "funny" bondage-and-dating show that was a flop when it was shown this spring on Dutch...
...think this agreement is terrific," said Josh Isay, spokesman for DoubleClick, the largest Internet advertising network and a major force in the Network Advertising Initiative, which penned the agreement. In other words, whew. Because without some consumer information these firms can dangle in front of companies, the economy of the Internet pretty much grinds to a halt - and the DoubleClicks are the first...