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...whistle-blower said in written and oral testimony that he and his associates did their best "to stop the most complex and sinister fraud in American history," but that no one at the SEC cared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Madoff Whistle-Blower Tells His Story | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

...America has changed dramatically, and young people don't have any real notion as to how much. When I first published Playboy, nice young people did not live together before they got married. Having a baby out of wedlock was a scandal that drove some people to suicide. Oral sex was illegal. Playboy played a major part in changing all that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Hugh Hefner | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...QUESTION OF EXPERIENCEThough Kagan has never appeared before the Supreme Court, several law professors said that they expected her to ease into the new role after spending over five years within what they called one of the most contentious legal environments in the country.“The best oral advocate is someone who can understand what the question is,” said Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford Law School professor who argued a high-profile Internet copyright case before the Supreme Court in 2002. “It’s not about rhetoric.”Lessig will...

Author: By Elias J. Groll and Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Kagan Picked for D.C. Post | 1/7/2009 | See Source »

...asked my son, why did you cry, what happened? And he said, "You don't understand that for a year and a half, I was in Latin America, going to small villages and sitting with this kind of man, listening to their oral tradition, to the beauty of their history, to the wisdom of their culture. And they shared it with me. And now here I am, the policeman, here I am the bad guy, here I am the occupier. And I can't talk to this man. You know how much he could tell me under different circumstances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the Jewish People Survive Without an Enemy? | 1/1/2009 | See Source »

...found that five years later, pledgers and non-pledgers don't differ at all in their sexual behavior. That includes oral and anal sex, which previous studies had speculated might be used as substitutes for vaginal intercourse. In this data, that seems not to be upheld. They don't differ in their age of sexual initiation; both groups initiated around 21 years old. That shows that this is quite a conservative group, because that's four years later than the American average. And they don't differ in number of lifetime partners. Each group had about three partners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Virginity Pledges Work? | 12/30/2008 | See Source »

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