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...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...
...support to one another, says Ashe. "I'd say that might have been more important than the loans," he recalls. "After they stopped borrowing, a lot of the groups would still meet - to help with bookkeeping, to refer customers to each other." Even if microlending isn't a clear-cut pathway out of poverty - and years of studies have yet to settle that debate - it could still be doing something very useful...
...Beverly Garland, 82, played it steely in '50s B movies (she starred in five early Roger Corman cheapies), then sweet as Fred MacMurray's wife on My Three Sons. A cut-rate Barbara Stanwyck, she deserved better scripts than she got. In Edgar G. Ulmer's meat-B noir classic Detour (1945), Ann Savage, 87, invested her sharp features and scraping-chalk voice in, unquestionably, the harshest, most conniving bitch in movie history. More than 60 years later, Guy Maddin cast her as another harridan-hellion - his mother - in the recent "docu-fantasia" My Winnipeg...
...story begins early last fall, when Lynch, 43, scoured the Internet. Lean and almost six foot tall, with hair cut nearly to her skull, Lynch lived alone in Tulsa, Oklahoma, sustained by Social Security benefits granted early due to a mental illness. She landed on the website of the Sons of Dixie, a group that had been founded by Raymond "Chuck" Foster. (See pictures of the Civil Rights movement from Emmett Till to Barack Obama...
...glimpse into the shooter's mindset," Strain tells TIME, "after he shoots the young lady, he rolls her over, pulls the pocketknife out, and begins opening her back to extract the round. He realized that once he shot her, the bullet didn't leave her body. So he cut her open to find the bullet to destroy the evidence. Right where she fell." According to Strain, Foster then ordered his disciples to destroy the evidence, burning Lynch's clothes, then bringing her body to the end of the boat launch, just steps away from the police station in the town...