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...Adam Sandler in his clownish moments (and, when he finally achieves heroic stature, to John Turturro), Kumar must play a child-man whose talisman is a potato imprinted with the elephant likeness of the Hindu god Ganesh; but the 6 ft. 1 actor is too big and imposing to lend vulnerability to this naif. Instead of being innocent, he just seems slow. (On the flight to China, an Indian man seated behind Sidhu asks him, in English, "Are you stupid?") Comedy is the most local of movie genres, difficult to translate from one culture to another. What's funny...
Emily Medina isn't running a pyramid scheme, despite what people often think. As the petite 26-year-old works her way through some of New York City's poorer neighborhoods, she approaches women selling food and trinkets on the street and offers to lend them money to grow their businesses. The organization Medina works for, Grameen, is one of the world's largest microfinance outfits and has a Nobel Prize to its name for this work. But in New York neighborhoods where loans to street vendors tend to come with interest rates north of 40%, it can take...
...Companies that provide so-called alternative credit information say their business is booming, even as the rest of the lending industry continues to shrink. Banks once sought out such information as rent-payment histories to assess whether to lend to individuals who lack a credit score because they may never have had a credit card or mortgage and don't have enough credit history to generate a rating. These days, more and more banks are using the supplemental information, even with customers who have a credit score, in an effort to lower loan defaults...
...Roland's banker profile doesn't lend itself to the same kind of Baptist preacher personality that the African American community is used to...On the stump, Roland won't get the same response."- Bobby Rush, Illinois congressman, Chicago Tribune...
...march on through the controversies of December. On Tuesday, coincidentally Kipling's 143rd birthday, Blagojevich threw another press conference. But the embattled governor could have taken a few other words from the poet to heart: "Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors...