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...always the first go-to place for financial-fraud survivors trying to recoup lost money. But with the April 15 tax clock ticking, figuring out what to do about recovery, both from taxes and from the Securities Investor Protection Corp. (SPIC), has become a mind-boggling maze for accountants and their Ponzi-victim clients. At a hearing yesterday, Madoff pleaded guilty to his decades-long crime, was handcuffed and ordered to jail. Sentencing is scheduled for June, but he could potentially be sentenced to 150 years on 11 counts. (Read "The Madoff Hearing: A Guilty Plea, but No Catharsis...
Facebook wants to know what's on my mind. Actually, that's not true; so far, it wants to know only what's on some of my friends' minds. Facebook doesn't care about me yet, although it promises that will soon change...
...waited, he asked questions about my habits and knowledge of sex that were almost refreshing in their intrusiveness. We talked about things I had thought about before (did I know that HIV was more easily transmitted via anal sex?), but some topics had never even crossed my mind (how could HIV be transmitted from woman to woman...
...elemental and the bona fide American, with a feigned exoticism. This takes the form of meaningless phrases that refer to “Abroad”—typically Europe. Thus we read of “Italian Bees Grazing a Table in August”; never mind that the fact that they are Italian has no discernible import for the poem. Similarly, in “Surgery,” “A dusting of snow / fastens to roofs / on a row of Delft houses.” In the first poem, “Ornament...
...creating those is on national governments of the developed world (more nationalism). Right now, international institutions are paradoxically both indispensable and ineffective. They can’t set up the new architecture. Strong states must lead the way by regulating at home, albeit hopefully with multilateral principles in mind...