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Here is how Grameen is trying to establish one: on a Thursday afternoon, Medina and 10 borrowers gather in Ziomara Suarez's apartment in the northern prong of Manhattan. As the borrowers - all women, all immigrants - pack into a room with shelves full of the herbal health remedies Suarez sells, they each hand Medina a small blue ledger with a loan payment tucked inside. If any one of the women doesn't pay her weekly installment, credit will be cut off to the entire group - stunting the small businesses they've each developed. Collateral and credit scores may be missing...
...this time around results will be different because Grameen employees themselves are making the loans, not training an American bank to do it. In New York City, Shah Newaz, who started working for Grameen in 1982, hands out checks to borrowers at Grameen America headquarters - a sparsely furnished one-room office above a laundromat. In Omaha, Habib Chowdhury, who has worked for Grameen since 1985 and is a veteran of its Kosovo start-up, has found more than 250 borrowers since June and has already lent $378,000, mostly to Mexican immigrants stocking up on inventory for small businesses selling...
...breakaway opportunity, threading a shot under Snikeris’ glove. The puck bounced off the post and into the back of the net.“It was a perfect shot,” Kessler said. “The goalie didn’t give up much room.”While Snikeris was good, Kessler was perfect.The junior notched a season-high 32 saves, withstanding a fierce Bulldogs offensive attack to complete the shutout.“Chrisitna Kessler had one of her best games of the season today,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said...
...Honesty," "Klannish Practices" and "Ambishous." Lynch's criminal record was so appealing to Foster, authorities say, that he waived the Sons of Dixie's $25 application fee. (In 2005, she had pleaded guilty to charges of possession of a controlled drug - methamphetamine - that police found on her living room coffee table. Friends say Lynch never married nor had children, and kept drugs around mainly to attract friends in order to alleviate her loneliness.) "I don't think she had any idea what she was getting into," says Fred H. DeMier, a Tulsa attorney who handled Lynch's previous criminal cases...
...entrenched in power, they alienated the general public and took a haphazard view of development - a common South Florida practice that's indelibly tied to helping those companies and private interests that supported them. "You could see it almost every commission meeting. You could watch the suits in the room, the eye contact, the facial expressions," said local environmental activist Joanne Davis. "It was disgusting. And I would hear them just berate the public, myself included...