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...system in poor countries," says Littlefield. Microlenders counter that the costs of starting a bank are so high that without them, the poor would have no alternative. "To build a bank in Africa, you need $5 million to start, and then another $3 million in minimum equity capital," says Chris Crane, CEO of Opportunity International, an Illinois-based Christian microlender. Crane's network of 12 microbanks worldwide has nearly $160 million in savings accounts and insures more than 3 million lives...
...Angelina. "The journey of seeing the same people coming back week on week-you have a relationship with them," says creator Simon Fuller. "You don't know what's going to happen. Sanjaya walks out with his crazy hairdo. It's a living soap opera." Season 6 contestant Chris Sligh called the job of getting the audience to identify with you "mak[ing] David Hasselhoff cry," referring to the Baywatch star tearing up when Hicks won last year's crown. Which brings us to point...
...elevates the NCAA Tournament over the World Cup, the Olympics, and any other global sporting event. And that same quality confines it to a US audience grown accustomed to the thrill of an event played by those amateur athletes whose mistakes often carry more import than their brilliance (see Chris Webber’s timeout in the 1993 Final Four). At the same time that the NCAA Tournament consumes the US for a month every spring, it remains obscure throughout an international world unimpressed by and unaccustomed to college athletics. Only in the NCAA Tournament does an amateur athlete...
...chance to warm up before the Ivy League season opener against Cornell this weekend. “This match is serving as a preparation for that match, and giving guys who have not been in the lineup recently a shot to sharpen their game,” sophomore Chris Clayton said. Clayton, who usually plays No. 1, did not play yesterday. “It’s getting the other guys ready in case we need them,” co-captain Gideon Valkin added. This tune-up match started out well for the Crimson, who easily...
...Chris ran his opponent so hard that he got cramps,” Fish said...