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...church taught that they would help pay the debt of "temporal punishment" due in purgatory for sins committed by either the penitent or any deceased person. The Pope received half the proceeds of the Mainz indulgence sale, while the other half went to repay the bankers who had lent the new archbishop the gold...
...plight of the 26 Latin American and Caribbean nations that met last week in Caracas, Venezuela. Just one year ago, Western bankers and public officials were scrambling frantically to avert a worldwide financial crisis as several Latin American countries tottered on the brink of default. The moneymen have since lent more than $45 billion to Brazil, Mexico and other Latin American nations to help them pay interest on about $275 billion in loans...
...pages; $15.95). Levin reveals that while DeLorean's sports-car company was heading toward insolvency, he charged the firm $78,100 for expenses in moving from Detroit to New York City, gave executives credit cards for Tiffany and "21" Club and acquired several expensive sports cars that he lent to relatives...
...Mass.), a member of the Senate ad hoc monitoring group on Southern Africa, is a sponsor of the organization and has worked closely with Carstens in the past. At Carsten's Suggestion. Tsongas and other members of congress "adopted" political prisoners in South Africa to whom they corresponded and lent moral support...
Moreover, Harvard does not treat such projects lightly. They went out and hired one of the most prestigious--and expensive--architects in the area, Graham Gund, whose father lent his name to Harvard's design school building. They also decided to install a phone and heating...