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...Fiske concluded that White House deputy counsel Vincent Foster killed himself with a gunshot to the head last July 20, as police investigators reported at the time. Fiske confirmed that Foster suffered from severe depression, but found "no evidence that matters related to Whitewater" or other Clinton land and loan controversies "played any role in his death...
...benefits include employer contributions to pension plans and medical, dental and life insurance; "other compensation" encompasses such items as loan interest subsidies and taxable expense...
Jensen said he thinks his unusually high "other compensation" package stems from a reduced interest rate on a loan from Harvard...
Delegates going to Cairo should keep these subtle signals in mind and scale back their ambitions to reform the world as they formulate their action plan. Government programs that subsidize jobs or housing can spur population growth ( by giving people false confidence in the future, while a tiny loan that enables a woman in Bangladesh to buy a sewing machine to start a business may give her an incentive to limit the number of children she bears. Such empowerment is more achievable in the developing world than paid maternal leave, day care and other high-minded calls that characterize population...
...lack of accessibility has forced many inner-city dwellers to turn to storefront check- cashing offices, which can charge as much as 3% of the value of a check. A 1991 Los Angeles city council survey found 133 check-cashing offices -- vs. only 19 bank and savings-and-loan branches -- serving South Central L.A.'s largely minority population of nearly 600,000. Right next door, more affluent (and Anglo) Gardena had 21 bank branches for fewer than 50,000 residents. Elsewhere, many consumers are fleeing to credit unions to escape the escalating bank costs. Membership in these nonprofit institutions, which...