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...hard place. For China, economic growth has become dogma. Small-town leaders are under intense pressure to deliver the visible trappings of development. But as is true from New Jersey to Nigeria, when rivers of fresh concrete flow, corruption is never far away?especially when local officials are chronically underpaid (the salary of a typical township magistrate in China is about $250 a month before bonuses and adjustments). For a local official to crack down on corruption can mean that cherished development projects get delayed. Indeed, in Lianjiang, Huang's expos? has stalled the county's first apartment complex financed...
That may be so, but plenty of Americans are still feeling overstretched and underpaid, and there is some evidence that Edwards' populist message, which helped win him a spot on the Democratic ticket, is resonating with voters: in last week's TIME poll, 51% of the likely voters interviewed said they agreed with his claim that the government under Bush benefits the rich at the expense of the middle class and the poor, and that view is shared by 55% of those who described themselves as independents. Brenda Keen, 49, a business manager for a University of Georgia literary journal...
...close contact with his employees. When the air conditioning broke down, he dashed out to buy Good Humors for the entire staff ... FS&G's authors seem glad to forgo the ritual overpriced lunch (Straus takes writers to modest neighborhood restaurants) for the opportunity to work closely with underpaid four-star editors. [Scott] Turow, who turned down a proffered $275,000 advance elsewhere to take $200,000 at FS&G, says the house's cachet 'made it an honor to take less money...
...Within weeks of that visit, Petraeus was back again, this time with a clear mandate to stay as long as it takes to fix the under-equipped, underpaid, and demoralized Iraqi security forces. "The President told me I could have anything I wanted, and I took him at his word," Petraeus told TIME during an hour-long interview this week in his office. As an economist with a doctorate from Princeton, Petraeus knew what he needed: Money, lots of it, and fast. During 14 months of occupation, U.S. forces had made several attempts to kick-start Iraq's military. Many...
Three new books examine the history of African Americans in baseball. Negro League Baseball by Neil Lanctot documents how Major League owners underpaid black franchises for star players. Hank Aaron and the Home Run That Changed America by Tom Stanton details Aaron's trials on the road to 715, while The Ticket Out by Michael Sokolove shows that slugger Darryl Strawberry wasn't the only member of his high school team to fall victim to drugs and despair...