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...also restless because his father's death at a youngish age taught him that life was short. He was frugal because after his father died, he went through a colossal struggle to save the family's land. He became an attention junkie after his come-from-nowhere win made him a media darling and a party hero. And staying true to his ideals was almost impossible in Washington, where he spent three terms in Congress - and where horse-trading is the only way to get things done. (See Mark Sanford's mea culpa, plus nine other high-profile apologies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jenny Sanford Dishes with Dignity in Staying True | 2/5/2010 | See Source »

...made a mistake, she seems to conclude, it's that she was too independent, too capable, and gave her husband too much license. The day after the birth of their fourth son, she had an operation to have her tubes tied. With her consent, he did not accompany her to the hospital, to the consternation of the nursing staff. "I suppose you could say that women are built for sacrifice," she writes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jenny Sanford Dishes with Dignity in Staying True | 2/5/2010 | See Source »

...consumers' many needs. Cash-strapped shoppers flocked to the site for its low prices, ready-to-ship inventory, shrewd consumer product reviews, low shipping fees and the holiday season's trendiest gadget, the Kindle. It refused to back down from pricing wars with Walmart and Target over books, and made a big push into electronics to tap the void left by the demise of Circuit City and Tweeter over the past year. (See nine e-readers to gawk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amazon Outlook Bright Despite New Threats | 2/5/2010 | See Source »

Skeptics say it will be very hard to define which trades are being made on behalf of the firm and which are being made for clients. At issue as well is which firms would be subject to the Volcker rule. The skeptics say the Volcker rule wouldn't have stopped the collapse of Lehman or another investment bank, Bear Stearns, because they were not traditional banks. (Administration officials say the proposed rule would apply to any firm that owns a bank with federally insured deposits, which Lehman and Bear both did.) What's more, critics say, if you were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Proprietary Trading Too Wild for Wall Street? | 2/5/2010 | See Source »

...president is unable to respect social boundaries such as those created through marriage, how can he be trusted to respect the boundaries erected in terms of the national constitution's checks and balances?" the paper asked. The Johannesburg Star mourned the humiliation of the country: "His rampant libido has made South Africa a laughingstock of the world." (See pictures of Africa's AIDS crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In South Africa, a Scandal Over All the President's Children | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

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