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As the chief tax collector in the impoverished Philippines, Guillermo Parayno does not receive a lot of positive feedback. For nearly two years, the 56-year-old commissioner of the Bureau of Internal Revenue has battled tax cheats and rampant corruption, trying to fix a dysfunctional tax system that is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going For Broke? | 8/16/2004 | See Source »

Poor Chinese farmers don't tend to disagree with government officials putting on a hard sell, so Xu's parents relented, allowing her to be sent to a district-level sports school, where she cried for days at the prospect of constantly lifting heavy weights. Xu transferred to Weilun last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Gold | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

His speech--snoozy on the page, rousing in the hall--didn't offer any grand arguments. But the challenge of the moment was about demeanor, not substance. Kerry had to present himself as a plausible, positive--and not unpleasant--leader. His success was evident in the mostly mingy responses of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Audacity of Hope | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

WHY ARE THE WAILERS STILL SO POPULAR WITH KIDS EVEN TODAY? When we sang those songs, we were teenagers. So it affects teenagers. And then as they grow, it grows with them. You never get tired of the Wailers, because you can't find two Wailers songs that sound alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stirring Up The Spirit Of Reggae | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

Brought together when their parents married in 1995, the kids have by now grown tired of references to the Brady Bunch. "It doesn't get at the fact that we're a very real family," says Vanessa Kerry, 27, a medical student at Harvard. While she concedes that initially they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats To Watch: The Campaigning Clan | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

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