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...Another survival strategy: sell stakes in your bank to foreigners, so you can tap their capital and expertise. "With foreign partners, we can think 'O.K., you are the competition, but we are friends, so let's share experience,'" says Trung of Sacombank, which has three foreign partners, including ANZ, holding 10% each. (Vietnam limits foreign ownership of local banks to 30%.) Such local matches are a typical developing-market entry strategy for multinational institutions, which are keen to share their superior technology and know-how in evaluating lending risks in exchange for local knowledge and existing national networks...
...station, I was fit. After five days in a concrete and iron-bar tank, with no food and only a few sips of water, my skin was flaking and my clothes were slipping off. A prison blanket had given me lice. The water I had palmed from a rusty tap in the shower had given me diarrhea. Under a 24-hour strip light, I hadn't slept more than a few minutes at a time. And I stank. So many men had passed through Cell 6 that they had left their smell on the walls, and while I was making...
...early 20th century France, Kirk is confident that the universality of the play’s greater themes will strike a chord of recognition in all audience members. And the Lucie that Holding plays is not so far removed from Harvard after all. “With Lucie, I tap into that bit of me who sometimes feels socially awkward,” Holding says. “In a way, she’s just an awkward adolescent who never quite learns to pick up on social cues.” —Staff writer April B. Wang...
...saving for retirement, building up an emergency cash reserve and investing in mutual funds and stocks. But other books, like Kiplinger's Money Smart Women by Janet Bodnar, avoid the patronizing finger wagging and stick to giving advice that women can really use--like explaining when you can tap your Roth IRA to help with a down payment on your first house. You'll save so much money, you may decide to treat yourself to a latte. After all, you've earned...
...like pro-choice groups in the U.S., organizations like Catholics for the Right to Decide in Mexico are beginning to tap into what they insist is closeted doubt among Latin American Catholics about whether a fetus in the first trimester of pregnancy is a bona fide human life. They are also exploiting popular resentment against the Latin American Church's ardent opposition to contraception and other safeguards that could help avoid the need for abortions. Feminists say one reason so many women abort in Chile, for example, is the social shame the Church there tends to heap on unmarried pregnant...