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Such lending is readily available to students, with credit card companies setting up booths with giveaways to entice would-be borrowers -- even though most college kids have yet to hold down their first real job. Yet, rather than discouraging such practices, regulators look the other way. The message of Scurlock's film, which arrives in theaters on March 9, is clear: regulators' links to the industry are too tight for political appointees to keep financial services firms in check. Or, in the Harvard law professor Warren's words: "The lobbying dollars are all on the side of industry. That's why they get to make the rules." © Reuters 2006. All rights reserved