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...additional borrowed $85,000, on building permits, blueprints, and the like, but could not get a city-sponsored loan because, he believes, of the scale of his project. He trudged to more than a dozen banks, which rejected his application because his investment did not represent a sufficient portion of the plan...
Even when people are truthful, online relationships are necessarily limited. "You're only accessing a portion of a person," points out psychologist Michelle Weil of Orange, California. "As people, we need a tactile physical presence to make a complete bond. We need to see their face, see their gestures and smell their breath." Jonathan Steuer, an Internet consultant who lives in San Francisco with a woman he courted by E-mail, agrees: "Finding someone online is great as long as you take it to the face-to-face level and have a real-life relationship...
Rimm, who received his doctorate in 1991 from the SPH, said he completed his thesis based on material from an earlier portion of this study...
...becoming clear, however, that there's more to Forbes' strength than the power of one idea. The flat tax may have put Forbes' name on the table, but it accounts for only a decreasing portion of his support: the supply siders, the IRS haters, the fiscal conservatives. Forbes himself cannily used the proposal to forge a much stronger alloy out of the angry, disaffected core of Republicans and independents, of voters who hate politics, hate politicians, hate the media and hate political media most of all. In essence he has taken up the banner of the Perot rebellion, but with...
Lituma knows--indeed, everyone in the Andes seems to know--that the Maoist guerrilla movement Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path, is gaining control in the region. To underscore this point, Vargas Llosa inserts flashes of Sendero violence throughout the early portion of his narrative: the stoning to death of two young French tourists and a prominent ecologist visiting from Lima; the slaughter of a herd of vicunas being raised as a cash crop for the local economy; the invasion of a village in which residents are persuaded to massacre one another...