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Basha Lewis, 34, a farmer, decided last week that he had had enough. With his wife and three sons, he reluctantly boarded a ferry bound for Antigua, heading for London and an uncertain future. "I don't know what I will do when I get there," he said. "But the only choice I have is to put my best foot forward." There's no fighting the volcano. All the people of Montserrat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNDER THE VOLCANO | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

...free for the child's education. Some form of the Hope Scholarship tax credit of up to $1,500 is also likely, but parents probably could claim it only if their incomes fell within a certain range when a son or daughter entered college. What combination will survive is uncertain, but taxpayers may need a calculator just to keep track of what's available, let alone figure which offers the most advantage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BACK INTO THE TAX MAZE | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

...wishful thing," but later affirmed that "yes, of course they can." (He added that women could too, "as companions to their husbands. They can't conceive a king without a queen.") On whether his church still holds that God the Father was once a man, he sounded uncertain, "I don't know that we teach it. I don't know that we emphasize it... I understand the philosophical background behind it, but I don't know a lot about it, and I don't think others know a lot about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KINGDOM COME | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

...conversation with a fashionable woman decked out in a Chanel-style jacket and tailored pants. "You look about fourteen," he said to the obviously forty-something woman. "Do you know that if you were a dog, you would be two?" The woman let out a nervous peal of laughter, uncertain whether the conversion from human to dog years was a blatant attempt to impress her or the tangential musings of a madman. At the sound of her voice, three well-groomed businessmen lifted their heads quizzically and ever so slightly from their periodicals, as if to offer assistance...

Author: By Abby Y. Fung, | Title: "T" -time Etiquette | 6/27/1997 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, D.C.: With the spending portion of the balanced budget deal finished business in both houses of Congress, the House is set to venture back onto politically uncertain ground tonight with a vote to slash taxes over the next five years by $85 billion and tie the knot on the plan to balance the budget for the first time in 30 years. Under the Republican-proposed measure, Congress would tighten its tax belt by offering American families a $500 per child tax credit, across-the-board reductions in capital gains and estate taxes and a $10,000 deduction for education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let the Good Times Roll | 6/26/1997 | See Source »

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