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Ironically, banks have long benefited indirectly from the thriving check-cashing industry by supplying the loans and cash that check cashers use to pay these same customers. ACE Cash Express, which has more than 1,700 outlets across the country, works with Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Union Bank and others. Banks have shied away from serving the unbanked population directly because this slice of the market clashes with their business model. Banks get much of their profit from the interest they earn by lending out the money held in long-term deposits, but check cashers depend on a high volume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Profiting from the Unbanked | 8/16/2007 | See Source »

After being selected by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 28th round of the 2007 MLB First-Year Player Draft on June 8, Wilson chose to sign a contract with the Brewers, thereby forgoing his senior season with the Crimson. For Wilson, it meant the opportunity to play professionally and chase a promotion to the big leagues, his goal since the first time he picked...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chasing A Dream | 8/16/2007 | See Source »

...went to second base with a man! It's The Crying Games! I'm Brokeback Carter!"); and actor-director Yvan Attal (My Wife Is an Actress) playing a cab driver who switches from anti-Americanism to pro-Hollywoodism once he becomes embroiled in one of the Lee-Carter chase scenes. "Now I know what it is to be an American," he says as he merrily dodges a car full of killers. "Let me shoot someone." (I didn't say the movie was subtle, just that it's easy to sit through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jackie Chan Back in Action in Rush Hour 3 | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

...While Tucker keeps the comedy percolating, Chan mans the action scenes: the chase in L.A. of his old friend-nemesis Kenji; a bout of farcical fisticuffs with a, like, 9-ft.-tall martial artist; a wild ride in the taxicab; a decent hand-to-hand skirmish with a female ninja in a Paris casino; a swordfight with Kenji; and a two-against-the-world battle at the top of the Eiffel Tower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jackie Chan Back in Action in Rush Hour 3 | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

...Wild Sheep Chase, 1982 An amateur detective on a quest for a special breed of sheep encounters a woman with strange ears and the Sheep Man. Part of a three-book series, Sheep Chase has been translated into about 17 different languages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: By the Book | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

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