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...hard to find decent work in a war zone. Just ask Ilyas, 28, a Kashmiri, father of five and a guide by profession. Ilyas works for Pakistan's Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence. His job is to smuggle jihadis and their munitions into India's portion of Kashmir. If he survives the bullets, land mines and mortars that greet him in the freezing no-man's-land between the two countries, the ISI pays him $334 per trip. If not, his family gets his last paycheck. "Every time I leave home," says Ilyas, "my wife and I say goodbye...
...American Bankers Association show that credit cards have been overtaken by debit cards as the plastic of choice. Some 26% of consumers now pay for most purchases with debit cards, which draw money directly and immediately from their checking accounts, while 21% mainly use credit cards and pay some portion of the bill when it arrives...
...Ohio is only giving up two years of settlement money, but plenty of other states are cashing in their entire shares to solve one year's budget problems. Wisconsin will sell its portion of the next 25 years of payments to investors as bonds. The state hopes to raise more than $1.3 billion from the sale...
...next weekend, the nonconference portion of the Ivy League men’s basketball season will officially be in the books. So far, it’s been quite a run for the Ivy entries, and not just by the usual suspects, though some of Penn’s wins this year (Georgia Tech, Temple) and even its near-wins (Illinois, St. Joseph’s) have stolen the spotlight...
...challenge for the Crimson will be to carry the momentum from its recent success through the light portion of its schedule. Harvard has just two official games left before Feb. 1—at Princeton on Jan. 11 and at Yale on Jan. 12. Harvard Coach Katey Stone stressed to the team the importance of staying focused and in shape throughout the lighter portion of the schedule...