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...borrow a word from Lowell’s volume, Carson is the difficult “paramour” who returns now, five years overdue. Her style, though unsettling and unseen for half a decade except in a few journals, becomes familiar as “Decreation” unfolds in lamentable seriousness, producing a book that intimates its few faults and overwhelms all of its readers’ objections...
Middleman-free microlending has long been associated with developing countries. Why not bring the model online elsewhere, circumventing the traditional banking industry? That's the idea behind zopa.com a Web-based lending and borrowing exchange that connects those who want to lend with creditworthy people looking to borrow. Zopa serves as the platform, like eBay. The borrower simply pays a 1% fee to Zopa up front. Members have to be at least 18, have a credit rating and, for now, live in Britain. Zopa plans to open in the U.S. in 2006 and has had offers to take the service...
While From Bags to Riches plans a British expansion by year's end, it might not be easy to break in: pouch-for-hire sites have already opened across the Atlantic. Be a Fashionista (be-a-fashionista.co.uk), an upscale site based in London; Secret-Boutique (secret-boutique.com) and Bag Steal and Borrow (www.bagstealandborrow.co.uk)--yes, the name is uncannily familiar--have all been launched in the past year. Dutch bag fans can borrow from Bag Habits (baghabits.com). When it comes to handbags, the status trap, it seems, is a global phenomenon...
Almost immediately upon arriving, Matt’s brother-in-law’s hoodlum brother (Charlie Hunnam, in a fantastic performance) drops by to borrow money before a soccer—sorry, “football”—match...
Peterson added that the other two options are either politically impossible (doubling payroll taxes) or economically infeasible (continuing to borrow money from foreign countries...