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Rolando Hortaleza BEAUTY KING He used his wedding-gift cash to start his cosmetics company in a garage 20 years ago, and he had to bribe Manila's sidewalk vendors to sell his products, but since then, Hortaleza, CEO of Splash Corp., has cleaned up well. His firm's revenues have jumped 66%, to $90 million, over the past two years, and Splash now exports face cleansers and skin toners to more than 15 countries across Asia and the Middle East. A medical-school graduate, Hortaleza, 45, is returning to his health roots: Splash has joined the booming market...
...Sunni rebel group. What's more, they revealed the names of several informers in Washash. As word of the capture began to circulate, families of the victims flocked to the police station, seeking the names of the assassins. One relative told TIME that police officers demanded a $500 bribe before giving out the informers' names, and in the spirit of revenge, the sum was gladly paid...
...bribe. Bigger smile. The portsman accepted the euros from our captain, and I was permitted to jump from the deck of our yacht onto the golden shores of Monte Carlo. Stepping on solid ground, I realized how little I knew about this ‘prince-alty,’ save that it was stolen from the French by pirates centuries past. Of course, there was that interview in “Vogue” with Marat Safin, the tennis star with the hottest temper (and body). He had half-seriously, half-jokingly expressed interest in moving here to escape...
...really learn to conduct only by doing it, and to do it you need an orchestra. "You have no instrument to practice," Alsop told TIME. "You can't get any experience." In her 20s Alsop worked as a freelance violinist in New York City, but after hours she would bribe her musician friends with pizza to let her lead them through Mozart symphonies. When she couldn't get a regular conducting position, she founded her own ensemble, the Concordia Orchestra. Never let it be said that Alsop's resolve is less than steely...
...Stuttgen says the skulls were being sold to foreign buyers for about 600 kina ($150) each. He also says he suspects local authorities are hoping he will offer a bribe to make the case go away, but he refuses to identify his supplier or give details about the intended recipients of the grisly cargo. The boxes the skulls were packed in, however, provide better clues. They are clearly addressed to individuals in Germany. One recipient is a natural-therapies practitioner who declined to speak to Time about the skulls but says he does know Stuttgen. Efforts to contact the other...