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...South Africa's biggest banks, he didn't want to know her. She didn't have enough for a deposit, he said. She was a bad risk. Leo took time off work and went to plead her case every day for three weeks. Finally, in a last-ditch attempt before her home was reauctioned, she visited the office of the bank's ceo, sat herself down in his reception area and waited. After about six hours, the puzzled ceo invited her into his office. He listened to her story, reviewed her file, sensed her resolve and agreed to loan...
Every summer a small, élite group of first novels break out and become best sellers. Something in them hits that summer sweet spot between brainy and beachy, causing readers to ditch the Grishams and Pattersons and turn to new voices. Here are five of this summer's most promising debuts. Later you can say you knew them when...
...seemed as if the values they had instilled in their son--to set goals, accept responsibility for your actions, keep your promises--were driving him closer to danger in a war they didn't understand. His mother cried when she saw a newspaper photo of soldiers sleeping in a ditch they dug for themselves during the initial push into Iraq. Pae made light of it--"They looked comfortable to me, Mom." But to this day, her worrying abides--pride and fear marching step for step. "Every time I read a newspaper article or see on TV these boys dying...
When you're single, deciding whether or not to hand out your phone number to a potential soul mate can be nerve-racking. This service lets you create an alias of your phone number. Hand it out instead, and if the people calling you turn out creepy, ditch the number and get a new one. You pay $5 for each number; after you have talked for more than 30 min. using that line, the number no longer works. But if half an hour isn't enough time to discover whether someone is worthy, you can always log on to your...
...Firefox browser that keeps you safe in three ways. First, with Anonymous Surfing, it keeps websites from tracking your physical location by scrambling the address given to you by your Internet service provider. It also provides a spyware-removal tool and a Digital Shredder that makes it easy to ditch your history and other browser info so that nobody looking at your PC will know what sites you've visited...