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Citigroup, which in the late '80s launched a Western Union clone that tanked within two years, is probably the best positioned of the banks that are competing with Western Union. Citi bought Banamex, Mexico's second largest bank, in 2001 and has a strong banking presence in India, where the company is the largest credit-card issuer. "But at this point it's still the elephant and the flea," says David Robertson, publisher of the Nilson Report. By year's end, Western Union will have set up shop in 15,000 India Post offices...
...when it came out, and it is rated R. But maybe he could use the guidance of an older woman. Lately he and Diddy have been referring to themselves as the newest version of the legendary Rat Pack. Moore, who was a founding member of the mid-'80s Brat Pack--which included such early bloomers as ANDREW MCCARTHY and ALLY SHEEDY--might want to point out that that isn't necessarily the greatest career move...
...malpractice-insurance industry went through similar cycles of low rates, squeezed profits and price hikes in the mid-1970s and again in the mid-'80s. Zuk, who enrolled in law school in the '70s just to learn torts, says ballooning malpractice claims make the current crisis worse than previous ones. From 1997 to 2001, the median malpractice jury award doubled, to $1 million, but that counts results only in the 1% of lawsuits that are won by plaintiffs. The number of malpractice suits has remained stable, and although some states have seen sharp jumps, the average claim payment has grown...
...positive. His childhood years in what was then Rhodesia were happy ones, and "early memories of that sort are so important." He praises the "quiet decency" of Botswana, which he got to know well while helping to set up the nation's law school in the early '80s. "People don't usually see this side of Africa," he says. "They just see war, famine and oppression." Expect more happy days in Mma Ramotswe's future - more lessons in Botswana etiquette, more neatly solved cases, maybe even a wedding to her longtime fiancé, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni. And McCall Smith...
...popular SNL skit, Ferrell and castmate Chris Kattan play the Butabi brothers, a duo of misfit partiers who continuously bop their heads in unison to Haddaway’s classic 80s song “What is Love...