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...self-employed man who hired a lawyer to sort out a blunder by tax authorities has been left facing a €2.2 million bill in legal fees. The man had received a €290 million tax bill on his €17,000 annual salary - a mix-up that took the attorney just an hour to resolve. But under German law, the lawyer is entitled to a fixed percentage of the reduction in tax obtained. Of course, it's nice for the tax man to know that, for once, there is someone less popular than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worldwatch | 10/17/2004 | See Source »

...intelligence world, was arrested by federal agents. The diplomatic gaffe was surprising enough: the U.S. keeps contacts with Taiwan at arm's length out of deference to China, and visits to the island by key diplomats are very infrequent and require top-level approval. But the intelligence blunder?exposing himself to blackmail by making the secret trip?was even worse. "Even if he pulled [the trip] off," says one shocked former colleague, "he would then be totally in Taiwan's pocket because they could threaten to go public with it at any time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Error of Judgment | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

...middle-class civil servant's family in Bhubaneswar, a dirt-poor city in eastern India that is usually given a wide berth by tourists. "Even in Indian terms, it's really remote," she says. Nair was also, she claims, an unwanted child?or, as she puts it, a "contraceptual blunder." In 1957 the Indian government was worried about its exploding population, and her father, a senior bureaucrat, had sworn to limit the family to the two sons they already had. He sent his wife Praveen to a clinic for an abortion, but she couldn't bring herself to go through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Force of Nature | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

...there, as fans can attest, is a timeless, effervescent cocktail of comic juxtapositions, smoothly musical prose and exuberant generosity. "Behind the Drones and the manor house weekends," writes McCrum, "is a sweet, melancholy nostalgia for an England of innocent laughter and song." An England that Wodehouse, after his thoughtless blunder, never saw again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Duke of Wooster-shire | 9/5/2004 | See Source »

...They are also being press-ganged into something else: national service. Last year, the regime ordered civil servants to undergo a month of military training. Teaching a restive, resentful population how to fight seems a tactical blunder, but trainees are only given sticks, not rifles, and I hear that those with 15,000 kyat (about $17) can buy themselves out. The Burmese military is stronger than ever?nearly 40% of the national budget goes to the armed forces, making them the second largest in Southeast Asia after Vietnam's?but also more paranoid than ever. The state-run media...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stone Age | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

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