Dr. Ruskin says any time you loan money to a friend, the relationship changes.

KAREN RUSKIN: “Usually when you find yourself loaning money, you now enter a business relationship and it does change the friendship. You’re like a bank and there’s a reason why banks are not our friends.”

Dr. Ruskin does not suggest that our writer in Japan has to stop loaning money. But, if he does, he should know that it will most likely affect any friendship.

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Don Cornelius Remembered

Before there was “MTV,” or “American Idol,” or “Dancing With the Stars,” there was “Soul Train.” The extremely influential television show helped introduce America and the world to African American music and culture.

The creator, producer and host of “Soul Train,” Don Cornelius, died last Wednesday, at the age of seventy-five. Officials believe his death was a suicide. This week many people are remembering the well-known television personality, and the show that made him famous. Barbara Klein has more.

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That is the theme song from “Soul Train.” Don Cornelius launched the show in nineteen seventy, with just four hundred dollars. It was the first show of its kind - the first show to feature African American young people, as well as their music and culture.