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...millions of business owners agree to put their personal assets on the line. "Even a business with a solid balance sheet may be required to have a personal guarantee," says Therese Franzén, an Atlanta lawyer and chair of the American Bar Association's consumer-financial-services committee. The hope, of course, is that your business will thrive and you'll pay down the loan just as you would a mortgage.(See how to plan for retirement...
...like a mini--Meryl Streep, so deft and true that people take the perfection for granted and stop noticing the work. It's obvious here that she's the one in control. A movie like The Runaways, showcasing both her gifts and the pitfalls of young fame, makes you hope she stays that...
When Cassandra saw the results, she was upset, although not in the way I had hoped. "God, I hope he doesn't have Asperger's," she yelled at the screen. Some people, apparently, learn to compensate for weak genes by developing their trash-talking skills...
...genes, arguing that when, for instance, Jews procreate with other Jews, they increase their kids' risk for breast cancer and Tay-Sachs. "I always wanted to procreate with someone outside my gene pool because I think you get a more beautiful and genetically superior baby," she said. "I was hoping for a black guy, but I got a Jew." Right then I felt grateful both for Cassandra and for the fact that she didn't put that in our wedding vows. I just hope Laszlo didn't inherit her mouth...
...Miller shows any signs of violent tendencies herself, but because she is one of the disseminators of a virulent antigovernment philosophy that may have helped plant thoughts of insurrection in someone else's head. Miller's own first thought upon hearing of the bombing was, "Oh, my gosh, I hope some idiot calling himself a patriot didn't do this." She admits that her own unarmed group, the Sons of Liberty, had attracted a "loose cannon," a young man who tried to join last summer. "He was saying things like, 'We ought to blow up the federal building,' "she recalls...