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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...melding Jawi, the country's adapted Arabic script, with images of Bas Mini (KL's minibus service) and Tunku Abdul Rahman, the revered father of independence. "We hope that through our designs, people will start to become more observant of themselves and realize that our local culture is rich and colorful in its own right," Latif says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Logo Here | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

...charging a rate of over 100% on loans to their customers. In Cambodia, the annual interest rates are somewhere between 30% and 40%, which is still very large. As an outsider, these number may suggest that the banks are stealing from the poor to give to the rich, but a number of factors necessitate these high rates. The loans are risky, and the banks spend a lot on operating costs to distribute loans to peasants fanned out across the countryside. So even though the interest rates may seem exorbitant to an outsider, the margin of profit can be very slim...

Author: By Charles A. Lacalle | Title: Finance in the Third World | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

...Rich's Rich pens new song, Raising McCain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

Problem is, the Tropic Thunder stars seem rich at first, but they don't grow; they grow repetitious. Lazarus is a mix of Russell Crowe, Daniel Day-Lewis and Robert De Niro in his body-punishing Raging Bull days, and Downey brings a nice pomposity to his blackface posturing and righteous-pimp drawl. (The joke, by the way, is clearly not on African Americans; it's on the actor's belief that he can play anyone.) But Lazarus and the others out there in the jungle don't evolve or devolve; they are figures from an SNL skit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tropic Thunder Brings Jungle Fever | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...with a living sacrifice is that it can crawl off the altar. We sing Onward, Christian Soldiers on Sunday, then go AWOL on Monday.") The Purpose Driven Life shipped 40 million copies worldwide, and Warren was suddenly famous and (despite turning over 90% of his profits to his church) rich. He could try his hand at just about anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Ambition of Rick Warren | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

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