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...Manhattan. As the borrowers - all women, all immigrants - pack into a room with shelves full of the herbal health remedies Suarez sells, they each hand Medina a small blue ledger with a loan payment tucked inside. If any one of the women doesn't pay her weekly installment, credit will be cut off to the entire group - stunting the small businesses they've each developed. Collateral and credit scores may be missing, but peer pressure is powerful. The result: a 99% repayment rate in the U.S. (See the best business deals...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
...Italian program has “many serious consequences,” according to Margaret Cuomo, founder and president of the Italian Language Foundation, which led the recent efforts to raise funds to continue the AP Italian exam. Aside from the lost opportunity for students to gain college credit, “it also affects the teachers deeply, particularly in this time of economic instability,” Cuomo said. “There are schools that are considering dropping their Italian programs altogether because there is no continuation to an AP course.” The AP Italian exam...
...software program called Identity Finder that scans for the presence of high risk information, such as social security numbers and credit card numbers, is currently being installed on most central administration computers, according to Robert Cahill, the University Information Systems director of support services. According to guidelines released by Central Administration Information Technology, administrative computers must not store what they deem high-risk, confidential information “in any way relating to Harvard or Harvard sponsored activities on any individual user computer or portable storage device.” The software is being installed “to make...
...power-play attempts.“Yale’s a good team. They always play us hard, especially this year. They’re very skilled and they work hard all over the ice,” co-captain Jimmy Fraser said. “I give them credit. They outworked us. When we fell behind, they didn’t get cocky, and they didn’t get away from their game.”Fraser scored his third and fourth goals of the season and provided the only offensive spark for Harvard all night. His first...