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Tory, like others, was attracted by the financial options Peru could provide for him and his wife, whose visa status did not allow her to work in the U.S. Tory went to work in New York's high-pressure investment-banking world after finishing an M.B.A. at Dartmouth. He thought the action was there and he was safe in his job at Bank of America despite the crisis, but he says he realized recently that the offerings in Lima were even better. "I think that I will have more opportunities professionally and personally in Lima," he says...
...economic, though. Tossed into the mix are being close to family and the possibilities offered by Lima, especially for the affluent. "This is a very personal decision, but it plays a major role. There is a lifestyle here that is different. If I wanted to go golfing in New York on a Saturday, I could, but it would involve driving a few hours and paying a few hundred dollars. Here, I get in the car, and I am on the course in five minutes," he says...
Today Grameen programs are everywhere. We even have a program in New York City, and it works beautifully. It's the same system as in the villages of Bangladesh. We do it in Latin American countries--in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica--in exactly the same...
ROBERT BARNETT, an expert on Tibet based at New York's Columbia University, blasting the Obama Administration for yielding to pressure to postpone a planned meeting between the President and the Dalai Lama until after Obama's November summit with Chinese President Hu Jintao...
Sources: CBS; Washington Post; CNN; BBC; CBS; New York Times; Los Angeles Times...