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...their burden eased?a fraction of total defaulters. Meanwhile, in a dingy suburb across town, the agency holds 90-minute cash-management classes. The teacher, former banker Kim Seung Duck, loudly exhorts borrowers to embrace the habits of the rich by "loving money and saving." Under the white glare of fluorescent lights, middle-aged women scribble down his instructions while younger classmates doze. "My students are generally uneducated about money," says Kim. "It's difficult, because Asian parents think it's their duty to give money to their kids...
...could dig up. It was after midnight, and they had been drinking. In truth, Feng admits, he was a little spooked--children in this area are raised on ghost stories of imperial ancestors, haunting mischievous villagers. As the men tossed up spadefuls of dirt, chatting and laughing under the glare of a light hooked up to a generator, Feng noticed a smell he likened to fermented bean curd...
Garrett Schires has taken a lot of snaps under the glare of the spotlight...
...Blair in the Glare Re your notebook item on British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his testimony at the Hutton Inquiry [Sept. 8]: nobody has come out a winner in this situation, as far as I can see. Blair, the British government, the intelligence forces and the bbc have all "spun" things to suit their various claims. No one knows what to believe anymore. The Hutton Inquiry has certainly given us a fascinating insight into how the government is run and what sort of influence the Prime Minister's appointees, such as communications chief Alastair Campbell, have over government policies...
...takes a sinner to appreciate the blinding glare of grace. Cash saw the light in 1967, when he began spending quality time with June Carter, of the legendary country clan the Carter family. Carter urged Cash, who was trying to kick his addiction to prescription drugs, to attend services with her at the First Baptist Church of Hendersonville, Tenn. "He said he didn't think he was ready for that," recalls the church's minister Courtney Wilson. "But she told him they could go late and leave early. They came late and sat in the back." That day marked...