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Madoff to Magazine: 'Government Is a Ponzi Scheme'
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff said in a magazine interview published Sunday that new regulatory reform enacted after the recent national financial crisis is laughable and that the federal government is a Ponzi scheme. "The whole new regulatory reform is a joke," Madoff said during a telephone interview with New York magazine in which he discussed his disdain for the financial industry and for its regulators. Timothy A. Clary, AFP / Getty Images Bernard Madoff says in an interview with New York magazine that new regulatory reform enacted after the recent national ...
Palin Rolls Out All-Media, All-the-Time Campaign
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyOver the past few days, Sarah Palin has rolled out a new phase of her political strategy -- a full-blown use of all media platforms to keep herself in the public eye. With the debut of her eight-part family series, "Sarah Palin's Alaska," which drew a record-high nearly 5 million viewers to The Learning Channel on Sunday (against Sunday night football and the CBS and ABC hits "Undercover Boss" and "Desperate Housewives''), Palin can chalk up another media victory. But it is a mega-profile in the New York Times Magazine, released online Wednesday in advance of publication in print this ...
How N.Y. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand Fended Off All Comers
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyNEW YORK – Not so long ago political analysts and insiders in New York political circles saw Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand as easy pickings. She was an upstate two-term congresswoman from a rural and conservative district appointed to fill the seat vacated by Hillary Clinton after Caroline Kennedy, the sentimental favorite, withdrew from consideration during the messy, two-month process. From the moment Gillibrand took the job in Jan. 2009, she was under attack -- ignored, criticized or dismissed by all sides and political parties. Even after serving a few months, most New Yorkers still ...
Choosing Children: A Huge Investment in a Perilous World
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyKids. Are they bundles of joy? Or crippling burdens? A trip to the mall will remind anyone that it depends on the parent and depends on the kid. However, a headline like that is not going sell papers. Despite the title of New York Magazine cover story "I Love My Children. I Hate My Life," readers learn on page six of the six-page article that research reveals in the long run parents do not regret having kids. It's the childless who have regrets. Sure, kids will ruin your life. But so does everything, if you live long enough. My colleague Sarah Wildman acknowledges the frustrations of ...
Parenting and Happiness Pair Well, Despite What You Read
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyNew York Magazine has been doing a good job, lately, of beating parents into the ground. First there was a devastating piece about the abuse of nannies in Brooklyn and Manhattan, about the utter exploitation of babysitters – one to the point of physical abuse – their total import to families, their total powerlessness. That alone, surely, was enough to make the child-less (child-free?) feel pretty happy. And then came Jennifer Senior's cover story last week: "I love my children. I hate my life." Study after study, Senior wrote, has shown that your little bundle o' joy is not ...
Helen Mirren Goes Topless in New York Magazine
By not in system - AOL NewsThis week's issue of New York Magazine features a very intimate profile of Helen Mirren. In it, she chats about what it was like working with her husband, director Taylor Hackford, in her upcoming movie, 'Love Ranch.' She also talks about playing the madam of a brothel and what she did to prepare. And she coyly reveals how she's still a "little notorious." Oh, and she poses topless in a bathtub full of water. ...
Where Is Bernie Madoff Still a Hero? Prison
By Michelle Ruiz - AOL News(June 6) -- Bernard Madoff may wear the same standard-issue khakis as the other inmates at North Carolina's Butner Federal Correctional Complex, but to them, he isn't just prisoner No. 61727-054. The $65 billion Ponzi schemer is considered a hero and a celebrity among fellow convicts, solicited for autographs and business advice, New York magazine reports in a feature story on newsstands Monday. Citing interviews with more than two dozen current and former Butner inmates, writer Steve Fishman describes a brazen Madoff who boasts about his crimes to a gaggle of admiring prison ...
Sweat Lodge Guru Defends His Actions
By David Knowles - AOL News(Jan. 26) -- The New Age practitioner who presided over a sweat lodge ceremony that led to the deaths of three people says reported comments suggesting he ignored participants' complaints have been "taken completely out of context." No charges have been filed, but James Arthur Ray remains the focus of an ongoing homicide investigation into the deaths of Liz Neuman, 49, of Prior Lake, Minn.; James Shore, 40, of Milwaukee; and Kirby Brown, 38, of Westtown, N.Y. They were among more than 50 people who took part in the Oct. 8 ceremony in Sedona, Ariz., where many people became ill for unknown ...
Time's Up Superdelegates: Obama or Clinton?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThis is the message from DNC Chairman Howard Dean. Pencils down. Is that your final answer? Via CNN:An increasingly firm Howard Dean told CNN again Thursday that he needs superdelegates to say who they're for--and "I need them to say who they're for starting now.""We cannot give up two or three months of active campaigning and healing time," the Democratic National Committee Chairman told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "We've got to know who our nominee is."If Dean has shown us anything over the course of this election cycle--and readers of this column have varying opinions on the subject--it's that he ...
A Brief History of Truth and Lying
By David Knowles - Politics DailyWhat greater sin is there in politics than to lie? A betrayal of public trust is something that we Americans will not tolerate from our leaders. Truthfulness is the paramount virtue that we require of those who would govern us. Leaders must not lie: It is a concept embedded in our collective psyche, reinforced by our folklore, as when a six-year-old George Washington uttered his famous line about the fallen cherry tree, "I cannot tell a lie, father, you know I cannot tell a lie! I did cut it with my little hatchet."As a child, I remember getting into arguments with classmates about which ...
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