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Before long, Tyler has a chain of fight clubs up and running all over the country and is molding their members into a paramilitary organization that aims, finally, to blow up all the credit-card companies and, just for good measure, TRW. It is along about here that Fight Club, which is Jim Uhls' adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel, lurches from satire into fantasy. For we begin to realize that the hunky Pitt is the willowy Norton's doppelganger, a projection of fantasies about masculine mastery...
...come? The Federal Reserve figures that the stated interest rate on home-equity loans averages 9.5%, only half the usual credit-card rate. Even more important, the interest on a home-equity loan can usually be deducted on the borrower's tax return. In some cases, these tax savings can bring the effective interest rate below 5%. Now, that's a deal...
Debt Consolidation. Wanda Storey, a Miami paralegal, has just swung a $13,000, 9.5% home-equity loan. She used it to pay off $6,100 of credit-card borrowings on which she was being charged 22% interest, and a $6,900 loan at 18% for a vacation time share. Her saving: $150 in monthly payments, plus a tax reduction she has yet to calculate...
...from the Russian airline Aeroflot. In the other instance a Swiss-based construction company called Mabetex allegedly paid bribes to government officials, notably Pavel Borodin, another Yeltsin intimate and manager of the Kremlin's vast properties, to win lucrative renovation contracts. One witness has told Swiss authorities he saw credit-card receipts for personal purchases made by Yeltsin and his daughters paid by Mabetex. Yeltsin, Borodin, Benex and Mabetex all deny the accusations. And the Russian President even repeated his denial two weeks ago directly to Clinton...
FALSE SECURITY The Federal Trade Commission and six states are nailing companies for bilking consumers out of more than $25 million through worthless credit-card "loss-protection" programs. Federal law already limits consumer loss due to unauthorized charges to $50, but telemarketers are talking up computer hackers and Y2K glitches. Some claim consumer-protection laws have changed, and others pose as credit-card employees who need to "activate" new protection features on your card. Don't give out personal information unless you initiated the contact. To file a complaint, call 877-FTC-HELP...