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...term ‘microfinance’ tends to turn people off,” Krass says, explaining the importance of having an artistic pathway between her specialized interest and the broader community. “They say they aren’t interested in banking or finance. To have their first vision of microfinance be scenes of people in developing countries opens a lot of windows for us to talk to them about what...
Aside from showing their photographs to turn attention to their efforts, ADITO members hope to sell crafts handmade by the women who received loans, according to Valerie N. Chadha ’11, the chief financial officer...
...1990s, then-mayor Dennis Archer Sr. tried to rebrand the Halloween period "Angels' Night." His police chief at the time, Isaiah McKinnon, recalls getting at least 30,000 people to turn on the lights of their homes and patrol their neighborhood's streets, to deter prospective arsonists. It worked: incidents of arsons fell sharply. "You felt a sense of relief," McKinnon says...
...surreal," says Scott Atkinson, news director at WWNY, the main television station in the district's largest city of Watertown. "From where we are, there are all these local issues to contend with. But then we turn on the tube and we're watching this weird parallel universe of the talking heads talking about this as the future of the Republican Party...
...guerrilla attacks in the late 1990s. Hemmed in by soldiers last year, Karina cut a deal for herself and her rebel boyfriend. Now she appears on armed forces radio to urge her former comrades-in-arms to give up. "For us, it's much better for these terrorists to turn in their weapons than to die on the battlefield," says General Miguel Pérez, commander of the army's rapid reaction force, based in the southern town of La Macarena. "That's because when rebels desert, it demoralizes the remaining guerrillas...