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...free man" type. Or worse yet, the humiliating "I'm not sure you're the one". But good news! None of these excuses is insurmountable. You just have to exercise a little savvy. Make him hang out with married people. Offer him a bribe, such as a hairy dog, if that's what he wants. To head off any incipient claustrophobia on his part, start having more ladies' nights. Tell him you don't even want a diamond. And in a worse-case scenario, give him an ultimatum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The "Get Your Man To Marry You" Plan | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

...attorney general will decide on the police recommendations within the next few weeks. In the past, Attorney General Menachem Mazuz has sometimes ignored the police's advice, but he is unlikely to do so in such a controversial case, in which the evidence of Olmert's alleged fraud and bribe-taking spooled out on nightly TV news like a tawdry soap opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olmert Charges Grow More Likely | 9/7/2008 | See Source »

...PDVSA). Argentine customs agents then caught him with a suitcase stuffed with $800,000 in cash. Antonini was allowed to return to the U.S. - but it seemed the entire hemisphere wanted to know if he'd been carrying the money for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as some sort of bribe for the Argentine government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chávez and the Cash-Filled Suitcase | 9/3/2008 | See Source »

...uncommon for criminals to bribe their way out of prison in Afghanistan. But in the north, where warlords still command private militias and enrich their armies by running lucrative smuggling routes, impunity is rife. Police often refuse to register cases against well-known criminals, for fear of retaliation and more often because they are on the take. When Amruddin's 13-year-old daughter was kidnapped in Sar-i-pul province last year, he had to pay for the local police officer's fuel in order to get the officer to visit the café where she had last been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan's Epidemic of Child Rape | 8/17/2008 | See Source »

...July, three of Thaksin's lawyers were sentenced to six months in jail for attempting to bribe officers at the Constitutional Court. Soon after, Thaksin's wife Pojaman, her secretary and her brother were convicted of tax evasion and sentenced to three years in jail. They were released on bail and are appealing the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thaksin Flees to London — Again | 8/12/2008 | See Source »

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