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...When Taufik and Megawati married in 1973, he was penniless and newly released from a seven-year jail term imposed for his pro-Sukarno political activism as a student. Taufik worked his way up from selling kerosene door-to-door to owning nine gas stations that, he says, remain his chief source of income, netting him about $100,000 a month. Under transparency laws passed after Suharto's ouster, the couple made an obligatory declaration of their assets, which totaled some $6 million...
Help with financial matters came next. Two years ago, Slocum found out his mother had been swindled by a door-to-door contractor: "I said, 'You paid $4,700 for that yard work?' She started crying." Slocum adopted a gentler tone and persuaded her to let him read all future contracts first. Throughout, her family has respected her independence, she says. She lets Slocum review her checking account, but not without some discomfort. They are worried about her fixed income, and she wants to buy birthday presents for her grandchildren and great-grands. "I half-listen," she says...
...only the onboard treatment that is going upscale. Cathay's second airport lounge, The Pier, at the Hong Kong International Airport offers showers, a well-equipped business center and a complimentary bar boasting a spectacular view of one of the world's busiest runways. Virgin offers door-to-door limo service and for passengers going through Heathrow, an optional stop at the Virgin Touch Salon for a postflight facial and hairstyling...
...After various menial jobs he followed Horace Greeley's advice, went West and became a South Dakota homesteader. He lived among whites and, it is said, took a white woman as his lover. In his late 20s he began writing novels; to finance their printing, he went door-to-door, raising funds from his white neighbors. His first self-published, semi-autobiographical novel, "The Homesteader," appeared in 1913. When black film outfits sprang up after "The Birth of a Nation," Micheaux offered his novel to the Lincoln Motion Picture Company on the condition that he also direct. Lincoln...
...Coalition’s work to publicize the rally and the AIDS crisis—work including door-to-door canvassing, leafleting, postering and personal e-mails to students—resulted in a turnout of more than 100 Harvard students. The Coalition also helped garner turnout by organizing a party to leave from each House’s dining hall, so interested students could travel to the rally together. The Harvard AIDS Coalition should be commended for inspiring the student body to protest insufficient funding of AIDS research, treatment and prevention. Students’ attendance...