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...joyous affair,” said Neal Alpert, the city’s director of constituent services. “It was smiles all around...
...breaking of the fast is often a decadent affair in wealthier Gulf countries like the United Arab Emirates, where well-to-do Muslims gather in air-conditioned tents, cruise ships or five-star hotels to feast on meals with multiple courses. In some countries, the fast carries the force of law: in Algeria, six people were jailed last year for failing to observe the fast, while in Iran authorities have shut down restaurants for not closing during the day. Other places have their own unique requirements: when Ramadan falls during the summer months, as it does this year, Muslims living...
...decide to call off the affair? I had never had an affair before. I didn't like being the second person; I didn't like to be hidden. Things like that started to annoy me, and I started to feel that he wasn't ever going to leave Ruth. My relationship with my husband had gotten better. Bernie started having real problems feeling that he was being disloyal to Ruth. In a sense, Bernie's caring for me was more than he had expected. It was putting internal pressure on him, and he just didn't do well under pressure...
...sense that he was duplicitous, beyond the fact that he was conducting an extramarital affair? No, there was no reason for me to believe that. You have to understand, I had all my money with him. He had a huge reputation; he was chairman of Nasdaq and had a very successful brokerage firm. This wasn't a back-alley type...
People have suggested the fact that Ruth Madoff didn't know about this affair suggests she may not have known about the Ponzi scheme, since she was completely unaware of an element of her husband's life. Do you agree? Well, our affair was a very small part of his life. If it took up a great amount of his life, she would have found out about it, because she was very much into the business. So I don't really see the analogy. I know her attorney may see the analogy, but I don't really...