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...Arroyo knows better than anyone that raising government revenue is one of the crucial challenges her administration faces if she is to keep her electoral-campaign promise to improve the lives of the nation's working poor?and to avoid a potentially disastrous economic crisis. The Philippine economy has long been one of Asia's worst performers, left in the dust while neighbors Thailand and Malaysia have raced ahead. Over the past five years, Philippine GDP growth averaged 3.9%, compared with 6.5% for other developing countries across the region. Chronically high unemployment (currently 13.7%) means about one out of every...

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

...avoid detection, operatives have talked about making a real effort to recruit "non-Arab males...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al-Qaeda In America: Inside Al-Qaeda's Files | 8/16/2004 | See Source »

...there were contacts between al-Qaeda and Iran between October 2000 and February 2001 [July 26]. That is further confirmation that the U.S. attacked the wrong country. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were Saudis. Your story noted that Osama bin Laden declined an offer of collaboration with Iran to avoid alienating his supporters in Saudi Arabia. So, what better country to attack than Saudi Arabia? The warfare should have been not military but economic, in the form of subsidizing a Manhattan Project to end our dependence on oil. We can start now and lead the world, or wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 8/15/2004 | See Source »

Both sides agree that Kate Clark made the change and named Harvard as a potential heir in order to avoid paying extra taxes...

Author: By Stephen M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Court Rules That Harvard, Not Family, Should Receive Father’s Money | 8/13/2004 | See Source »

...Belmont Stakes, where a win would have made him the second undefeated Triple Crown winner in history alongside Seattle Slew, who won in 1977; to a breeding farm in Midway, Kentucky. The injury was not career ending, but owners reined in the heroic Philadelphia-bred colt to avoid risk of further damage. "If anything else went wrong, it would break our heart," said owner Patricia Chapman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

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