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...special tax regimes. We wanted to say that we are a country that treats everyone rather well," recalls Kersti Kaljulaid, at the time an economic-policy adviser to the government and now Estonia's representative at the E.U. court of auditors. But Economics Minister Edgar Savisaar, an erstwhile hero of Estonia's independence movement and leader of one of the biggest political parties, wants to scrap the flat tax and use a more conventional progressive system that taxes the rich at higher rates than the less well-off. "Our system is too simple," he says. "We have too much inequality...
...break when the poker game does and the boys turn to playing video games. Renee made chili dogs for them to nosh on, but the food is all but ignored as the teens rush to the living room to feed what seems to be their true addiction: Guitar Hero on PlayStation 2 and Mario Superstar Baseball on Nintendo GameCube, which they simultaneously start up on two adjacent television sets. There's no more small talk, just grunted taunts and the occasional "Not now!" thrown at any adults who try to intrude. Small wonder that more parents are putting their money...
Chávez has long been an insurgent. He grew up idolizing his great-grandfather, who went into the mountains to lead a revolt against an early 20th century Venezuelan dictator, and Simón Bolívar, South America's 19th century independence hero. "Chávez has always seen himself as that kind of heroic man of action on horseback," says Alberto Barrera, co-author of the biography Hugo Chávez sin Uniforme (Hugo Chávez Out of Uniform). Venezuela's ambassador to the U.N., Francisco Arias, a former classmate who took part with Chávez in a 1992 coup attempt, says...
...hero," she said. "You lost a hand and saved lives...
...Hero? I was feeling anything but valiant. Mangled. Pitiful. Disoriented. Scared. I was anxious about my ability to work again with one hand and to parent my children, who lived with me half-time in Washington. My son Skyler was 11 years old, the same age I had been when my father, a workaholic community newspaper publisher, dropped dead of a heart attack. Olivia was 8, roughly as old as my sister had been. I couldn't bear to think I might let such wrenching family history repeat itself...