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...weeks - customers were on their own for the actual building). Patrimonio Hoy attracted 42,000 new customers and is expected to turn a $1.5 million profit this year. Cemex plans to expand the program into Colombia, Venezuela, Egypt and the Philippines. Diega Chavero, 38, of Zapopan, Mexico, thought the scheme was a scam when she first heard of it, but after eight years of being unable to save enough to expand the one-room home where her family of six lived, she was willing to try anything. Four years later, she has five bedrooms. "Now I have a palace...
...read Mark and Ingrid's thoughts. This crucial insight clues us into each character's secret motivations. Ingrid, for example, recalls cheating on Mark with his roommate, unbeknownst to him. So she uses her guilt to rationalize the clearly bad move of meeting him. Even Mark's manipulative scheme gradually begins to seem more like a pitifully misguided attempt at reconnecting with someone he cared about. The whole thing blows up, of course, at the climactic get-together where Mark gets progressively more drunk, his horny friend gets less cautious and Ingrid allows herself to hang around for the free...
...city council ballot, however, would continue to be based on a proportional representation scheme, which allows voters to rank a number of candidates for the council...
...Bewitched (Nicole Kidman) to The Honeymooners, with Cedric the Entertainer in the Ralph Kramden role. "We try to stay true to the main theme," says Cedric, "which is this guy dreaming of a bigger life for his family and always doing it by some kind of get-rich-quick scheme." Want to see what Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have been doing onscreen? Catch them as rival government hit men in Mr. and Mrs. Smith, suggested by the 1996 CBS sitcom with Scott Bakula and Maria Bello. A remake of The Bad News Bears was nearly inevitable: that...
Sometime in the misty past, most of us glommed onto the idea that life progresses neatly from one phase to another. A midlife crisis seemed to fit naturally into this scheme, somewhere around, oh, 47. Now it's as if the pages of Gail Sheehy's Passages have been put through a blender. You can have a baby at any age from 15 to 50. You may find yourself back in school at 30, 40 or 60. And that's partly because you can be put out to pasture by your employer at any age at all. University of Minnesota...