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...there are other changes to Mibanco's operations that aren't quite so easy to categorize. To grow quickly and preserve market share, Mibanco is offering incentives to current customers to get friends to sign up. That's hardly insidious--as anyone with a gym membership can tell you--but it does flick at the concern that lenders might start driving demand. And now Mibanco is contemplating an ipo. "We have two objectives," says Llosa. "One of them is to have a social impact, but we also look to be profitable. If we decide to only have a social impact...
...Every morning, Harris gets up at 4:50 a.m., goes to the Cabot House gym at 5:50 to weight-lift and use an arc trainer, takes his daughter’s two-year-old dog Tikvah for a walk at 6:50, and returns home to actually begin...
...champs!” as the team moved into the league driver’s seat: with wins in its next two games at Brown and Yale, Harvard would win the title outright and return to NCAAs.“I just remember it was so loud in the gym, my heart was pounding,” junior forward Katie Rollins said. “I remember thinking, ‘It doesn’t get much better than this.’” It got better the following Friday, when the Crimson beat the last-place...
...from a snapshot of what the sport was 10 years ago," he says. "Yes, it's violent. But so is pro football and boxing. There are plenty of violent sports out there. These guys aren't walking out of a bar into the cage. They're walking out a gym into a cage. They are world-class athletes...
...conservative countries still find it unacceptable for their daughters to play sports. "They bring their cultural baggage with them," she notes. "But this will change with time." Perhaps. But for the girls of Al-Madinah whose days on the court may be numbered, their time in Coach Zekic's gym class will provide a treasured memory of a brief, but exhilarating season in which gravity was the only restraint on their freedom to soar...