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...play fairly high stakes. I adhere to the law. I don't play the 'milk money.' I don't put my family at risk, and I don't owe anyone anything." BILL BENNETT, conservative activist, quoted in a story on washingtonmonthly.com and newsweek.com about his being a high-stakes casino gambler, losing, according to one casino source, as much as $8 million in the past decade...
...Beware agencies that don't explore at length what you earn, spend and owe before offering a "debt-management plan." Under such a plan, you'd send the agency one monthly payment to be disbursed among creditors, usually in exchange for lower interest rates. A plan should cover all unsecured debt (including things like debts to tradespeople and doctors' bills). Find out what interest-rate breaks you'll get and how long it will take to pay off all your debt...
...owe our student performers physical spaces, rooms for rehearsals and opportunities for instruction that are as good as they are,” Summers said. “And that is what we need...
Life is tough among the squatters of Helsinki. But in Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without a Past, it's also blessed with stray kindnesses. An electrician wires up the storage bin, and when the Man (Markku Peltola) asks, "What do I owe you?" the electrician answers, "If you see me facedown in the gutter, turn me on my back." A Salvation Army worker (Kati Outinen) gives the Man Christian charity, and a bit more...
...groups have started entering Iraq from both countries, as well as from Jordan. A senior U.S. official told TIME that his main security concern in Iraq, once Saddam is ousted, is "not the remnants of Saddam's government. It's the presence of other radicals who may owe their allegiance to neighboring regimes that have their own agenda...