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Just consider his dissection of the extortionate loan fees that are a staple of life for anybody who doesn't quite make it from paycheck to paycheck. Convenience stores in poor neighborhoods routinely advance cash to their customers at interest rates of about 20% for a two-week loan. If the debt can't be repaid, it's gladly rolled over--for another 20%. One study in Illinois found that the average customer had 10 renewals of that kind, which meant that in the space of a few months, he or she owed twice as much in interest...
...huge stress thing for everybody over here,” said Booth, who works in cataloguing services for Widener Library. “Our salaries are so low, we’re living paycheck to paycheck, most of us. Layoffs have the knockout effect of homelessness...
...Samurai copy was posted online under the pirate logo MPT--one of the so-called release groups that upload films and have their own hierarchy. Currently, MPT also claims to have online bootlegs of Paycheck, Big Fish and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Beyond the desire to get something for nothing, serious downloaders relish the technology of pirating for technology's sake. "I'm a geek," says one Indian student living in France. "There's a thrill of it. The first movie I downloaded, it was quite a kick--it was My Big Fat Greek Wedding...
...neither good nor real but the creation of a malign power echoes early texts that are now known as Gnostic. Similar themes mark the work of science-fiction patriarch Philip K. Dick, whose stories have been turned into movies like Blade Runner, Minority Report and John Woo's Paycheck, opening on Christmas...
...arrests. That is, of course, unless they happen to be student reporters. According to the official state policy, reporters for college newspapers are not eligible for this protection. Two weeks ago, the Massachusetts State Police denied press passes to three Boston College (BC) journalists, citing their lack of a paycheck as the reason for rejecting their request...