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...diversifies into leasing office products and secured credit cards. Most mobile-home customers are first-time home buyers or retirees with annual incomes of about $26,000; the trailers cost an average of $34,000. Green Tree's break came in the 1980s, when the savings-and-loan crisis drove many thrifts out of the mobile-home market. The company moved quickly into the vacuum. The gamble paid off big when the mobile-home market took off in the early 1990s. Since then, the firm has upgraded its relationship with dealers, establishing 24-hour service centers in St. Paul...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "The monstrousness of the idea that the U.S. is morally obligated to police every border, to solve every ancient tribal feud, to act as a global Solomon--this is what drove me to throw down the gauntlet and take on an opponent who enjoys every advantage...
Ilana Rhodes, who runs a kiosk in the Holyoke Center arcade called Caribbean African Creations, said the weather drove customers away. She said here stand had almost no customers the entire...
...northern provinces have formed a formal military alliance. Former military chief Ahmed Shah Massood signed a mutual defense pact Thursday with militia leader Rashid Dostum and Shiite Muslim leader Karim Khalily that establishes a new government covering nine provinces. Massood has been skirmishing with the Taliban since the movement drove Afghanistan's government out of Kabul two weeks ago, and Dostum says he fears he will be next. The men lead a minority population in the north that fears persecution from the Taliban, who are generally Sunni Muslims and members of the nation's ethnic Pashtun majority. The new alliance...
...Emerito Hernandez, who were driving to Cleveland, Ohio, to seek treatment for their daughter Desiree, 6, who needs a heart and lung transplant. When their minivan's broken alternator couldn't be fixed in time for their appointment--and they couldn't afford to rent a car--Hummel drove them to Cleveland himself. "Good people are scarce," says Sandra. "He's Superman...