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...accounts, it's hard to believe that the Pirate of Third Avenue will fess up entirely to SEC investigators digging for the remaining $49.15 billion in vanished loot. Maybe the money total is as inflated and false as his victims' accounts; maybe large chunks were taken out by depositors. Either way, outside experts say it stretches credulity to think a clever sociopath and long-term bandit would not take special, even basic steps to protect his extended family from the ugly shame of poverty, particularly since this alleged bandit knew he was headed for the brig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Has Bernie Madoff Buried His Loot? | 1/7/2009 | See Source »

...College today. The Eagles are coming off an upset win at North Carolina, the then-No. 1 team in the country. But as he battles BC’s frontcourt aces Corey Raji, Joe Trapani, Josh Southern, and Tyler Roche, he can take solace knowing none of them is either...

Author: By Ted Kirby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Forward Comes Up Big Against Taller Team | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

...Those who support torture may believe that we can abuse captives in certain select circumstances and still be true to our values. But that is a false compromise. We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground." - in an essay about the use of torture, Washington Monthly, Jan/Feb/March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIA Director: Leon Panetta | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

...quick to say that if Burris were to be appointed by Lieut. Governor Pat Quinn, they would accept Burris with open arms. "This is a lose-lose situation for Reid and the Democrats," says Mark J. Rozell, a political science professor at George Mason University in Virginia. "They can either look like they are accepting the choice of a corrupt governor who tried to sell the seat or they can look like bullies denying the seat to a guy who has done nothing wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burris Denied His Seat as the Senate Drama Continues | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

...opportunity to eventually regenerate. New fighters can be trained, new rockets acquired, new smuggling tunnels built. If Israel's choke hold on Gaza for the past year hasn't stopped Hamas from arming itself, then it's a good bet that the presence of international monitors won't either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Analysis: How Hamas Wins by Losing | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

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