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...baristas in place of tellers? The early results are encouraging. For the six months ending last Sept. 30, Shinsei declared a profit of $275 million. And the bank is reported to be preparing to sell its stock to the public in an ipo. "We were pessimistic last spring," says Nana Otsuki, an analyst with Standard & Poor's, "but Shinsei has surprised...
...with baristas in place of tellers? The early results are encouraging. For the six months ending Sept. 30, Shinsei reported a profit of $275 million. And the bank is reported to be preparing to sell its stock to the public in an ipo. "We were pessimistic last spring," says Nana Otsuki, an analyst for Standard & Poor's, "but Shinsei has surprised...
...have a driver's license and was still in high school, so attending prayer services five times a day was out of the question. On Friday nights, though, he would change out of his Western clothes and attend services at the Islamic Center of Mill Valley. Abdullah Nana usually drove him there. Nana, now 23, recalls that when he first saw Walker, he stood out immediately, not simply because he was a white man in a mostly Indian congregation but also because he was "on his own," meaning already devoted to Islam and without a referral from another Muslim...
...Walker passed a proficiency exam and graduated early from Tamiscal High. He asked that the name on his diploma be changed to Sulayman Al-Lindh. He never picked up the certificate. Soon he told Nana that he had found an Arabic-language school in San'a, Yemen, on the Internet. "The language spoken in Yemen is closer to the holy language of the Koran and the sayings of the Prophet," explains Nana. Walker also felt it would be easier to practice Islam in a Muslim country. In December 1998 he left for the Middle East...
When Walker returned to California around Christmas 1999, he found his parents had separated. He saw Nana and told him that Yemen hadn't met his expectations. "They weren't as orthodox as he thought--they weren't as strict on Islam as he thought," says Nana. But to Abdul Wadood, a 20-year-old Muslim friend who also met Walker at the Mill Valley mosque, John sounded fulfilled. Through his e-mail communications, he told Wadood he felt "free" because he didn't have any material possessions. Wadood says his friend never experienced culture shock because...