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Mrs. Madoff said she recognizes that lives have been upended and futures taken away. "I am embarrassed and ashamed. Like everyone else, I feel betrayed and confused," she said. "The man who committed this horrible fraud is not the man whom I have known for all these years."
Following the sentencing, Madoff's wife Ruth issued a statement. "I am breaking my silence now because my reluctance to speak has been interpreted as indifference or lack of sympathy for the victims of my husband Bernie's crime, which is exactly the opposite of the truth," she said. "Many...
Maternal condescension only really took hold in the modern age, when we turned parenting into a profession with its own implicit peer-review boards and competitive frenzy. Rather than uniting to promote a culture that would make parenting easier for everyone, we have wasted a huge amount of energy and...
I find it interesting to read how, because of new economic necessity, many people are acquiring food and homekeeping practices that rural folk have followed for years. Growing produce, buying half of a steer and raising chickens or bees are being described in such terms, one would think the wheel...
The day after the election, when protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad began escalating and the Iranian government moved to suppress dissent, the Twitterverse exploded with tweets in both English and Farsi. While the front pages of Iranian newspapers were full of blank space where censors had whited out news stories...