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...Lien grew up in a middle-class household in Phnom Penn during the '60s and early '70s (Lien is a pseudonym. She requested that her name and those of her family be changed to protect their privacy). The eldest of eight girls and boys, she worked every day after school in her parents' grocery store, handling bookkeeping and selling such items as Coca-Cola. After work she went home to cat supper, do homework, and help her mother around the house...
...Third World center, the University threw Black students a bone in the form of the Foundations." This statement reflects both ignorance of the facts and confusion. Since its-inception two years ago, every public report has made it clear that the Harvard Foundation was not established in lien of a Third World center. This point cannot be overemphasized...
Others were not so happy. Coon's office was besieged with complaints from angry lawyers and lien holders. "They said some very nasty things about me," the sheriff said, "but I expected it." However, some bankers and lawyers, perhaps aware of how popular Coon had suddenly become, were only mildly critical. Pittsburgh Attorney Bernard Markovitz, who handles foreclosures, said, "If Coon's intent is only to help them straighten out payment plans, I'm willing to let this slide." But he added, "Somebody has to pay. Nothing's for free these days. Other people have rights...
Never in history have so many nations owed so much money with so little promise of repayment. At stake is a gargantuan debt, a $706 billion lien held by banks, governments and international financial institutions around the world against a group of deeply troubled developing and East bloc countries. It is a sum nearly the size of the annual U.S. budget and more than three times that of Japan's; it is $154 for every man, woman and child on earth. It has mushroomed from about $ 100 billion only twelve years ago, keeping borrowers in bondage and lenders...
...Pudding does not pay the approximately $20,000 it owes the city in back and current taxes within a few months, the city will be forced to file a lien against the property, a spokesman in the city's delinquent tax unit said this week. If Cambridge takes action, the club will have six months to pay off the entire debt before the city can foreclose...