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...Indeed, deposits are currently growing at rates unheard of in more mature economies. Out of a total of 7 million bank accounts held by Vietnamese, 6 million were opened in just the past two years. Up to now, the biggest beneficiaries have been Vietnam's 34 small private banks such as Sacombank that, unlike the state-owned banks, are relatively unburdened by government directives aimed at managing the economy. Catering to individual depositors and small-business borrowers, private lenders have powered much of the industry's recent growth. Among their target customers are people like Nguyen Thi Tuyet. Four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Open Season | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

...students they met in England and moved in the 1970s to the ancient northern Iraqi city of Mosul. In 2003 they met the author - an Australian then covering the war for the Irish Times - shortly after coalition troops freed the city. O'Donnell's book is a brief, devastating account of how these women's lives change over three increasingly grim decades in their adopted country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Wives, Iraqi Lives | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

...undue burden" on the constitutional right. The law's challengers said its imprecision would stop not only "intact D&E" - the controversial process of removing the fetus whole (hence the phrase partial birth) - but also standard D&E, which involves removing the fetus in pieces. Together, the procedures account for most second-trimester abortions. But Kennedy, writing for the court majority of himself, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, John Roberts and Samuel Alito, said the statute was plenty precise, especially since a doctor couldn't violate it without "intending" to perform an intact D&E. And since there are lots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Court's Pro-Choice Silver Lining | 4/18/2007 | See Source »

...case rife with holes and hearsay, an abject abuse of the district attorney’s fundamental task of pursuing justice and justice alone. The American legal system, convoluted though it may be, is bound at its axis to the idea of finding and reaching justice while taking into account the lives and livelihoods of both accuser and accused. The Duke lacrosse players who were named saw a raucous media circus form up around them, and their identities were made known around the world. The notion of being innocent until proven guilty was polluted, and the stigma of the accusations?...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Disastrous Undoing at Duke | 4/15/2007 | See Source »

Christina L. Elmore ’09 played Undine, a self-made black businesswoman whose suave European husband (Brock W. Duke ’07) has just run off—taking the contents of her bank account with him and leaving her bankrupt. But Undine discovers that he has left her with one troubling compensation: she is pregnant...

Author: By April B. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ARTSMONDAY: ‘Fabulation’ is Magical Experience | 4/15/2007 | See Source »

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