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...emotive, which in the process turned him into a team leader. In the past, he sulked on the bench and dealt with the threat of being unliked with silence, a strategy he says he copied from his reticent father. In Dallas, he didn't speak to Mavericks teammate Jimmy Jackson for six weeks following an argument and went two months without talking to his coach after a disagreement...
...wave of ministers who are teaching their flocks how to climb out of debt and into the financial markets. His is one of 120 churches that have paid $1,000 each to join One Thousand Churches Connected, an economic-literacy program led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson and his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. "This is not about poor; it's about poor habits," says Jackson. "People are buying fancy cars and renting houses. They are choking on debt, living beyond their means...
...Jackson knows well the pitfalls he's preaching about, having had his own questionable finances examined by the Illinois attorney general and, in recent years, probed almost weekly by TV pundit Bill O'Reilly. But even his critics concede that the civil rights leader has always had a keen eye for high-profile crusades. And there's a great need today for money-management skills, especially among African Americans, who are a third less likely than whites to be homeowners or stockholders and who often are targets of predatory lenders...
Jumping on that criticism, the Rev. Jesse Jackson held a New Year’s Day press conference in Cambridge at which he called for Summers to take a stronger stance on these issues...
...Harvard must be a beacon of light for the nation, not a shadow of doubt,” Jackson said in an interview following the press conference...