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Having a problem covering your medical expenses? Need money to get out of a bad marriage? Can't afford your next vacation? A growing number of Americans are going online for help, starting a website at which they beg total strangers to fund their cause. Internet panhandling got national attention last June, when Karyn Bosnak, an out-of-work TV executive who had racked up $20,000 in credit-card debt, posted the site savekaryn.com to help pay off her Bergdorf's, Prada and Gucci bills. "Nothing is really in it for you," she wrote. "But I do believe...
...Harvard officials beg to differ. Sports media spokesperson John P. Veneziano scoffed at the notion The Game might be called...
They are gassing us! We really beg not to be gassed. We hope it will not be like the Kursk!" As a thick, visible mist enveloped hostages and their takers in Moscow's House of Culture theater, Anya cried for help through her cell phone. The hostage thought she was about to suffocate slowly just like the sailors trapped aboard the crippled Russian submarine Kursk in 2000. "We see it, we feel it, we are breathing through our clothes. We are all going to be blown...
...time in their club. Those who walked down the dark wood staircase at the A.D. during parties peered down on a sea of women clutching plastic cups in their hands, their numbers dwarfing the number of A.D. men. Even at clubs like the Fly and Phoenix, a well-orchestrated beg and a carefully-crafted name drop could earn most dolled-up females an entrance at the door, even when the guest list didn’t bear their names. But now things are different...
...With markets falling to 1997 levels, insurers are now caught in a downward spiral: the more equity prices fall, the more the value of their capital drops, creating intense pressure to sell. But unloading stocks simply makes prices fall, thus further depleting insurers' capital base. The alternative is to beg shareholders for fresh capital - as many insurers have been forced to do - and risk spooking investors. The result: a stream of bad-news announcements by insurers across Europe reporting losses, reduced payouts, layoffs, more than €5 billion in planned capital increases, denials of liquidity problems - and the replacement...