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...perfect. But her successful present belies a haunting past: In her new memoir, Crazy Love, Steiner reveals how she fell in love with and married a man who beat her regularly and nearly killed her. TIME spoke to Steiner about why she decided to write about the most painful period in her life, what lessons she hopes readers can draw from her experience and why she thinks people should defend Chris Brown. (See TIME's top 10 movie romances...
...bravest things you've ever done. Which is it? And why the vacillation? Well, Both. Stupid because of how vulnerable sharing this story makes me feel. Stupid because I worked so hard to put this behind me. Stupid because it is painful and upsetting to talk about this period in my life. Why bring such a dark period into my wonderful, happy present day life? And brave because it is hard and painful for anyone to talk honestly about a terrible relationship...
...optimism built into a 20% stock market rise that takes less than half a month. But, news that GM (GM) or Chrysler might go bankrupt and that large American banks may need more government money pushed stocks down again. In a very short period of time, investors have begun to doubt whether there is a good chance that the recession will lose steam before the end of this year. The month which began with optimism is not closing out that way. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...
...issue has resurfaced recently, with fertility clinics and egg-donation agencies across the country reporting a precipitous increase in applicants seeking to donate eggs - as high as 55% over the past four months compared with the same period last year. With college students struggling to pay tuition and young homeowners facing foreclosures, much has been made of the potential economic benefits of donation, a term that belies its lucrativeness: egg donors can earn about $5,000 per donation, with thousands more in premiums for eggs from women with exceptional looks, high SAT scores or an Ivy League diploma...
...Ultimately, Mack says she reached an out-of-court settlement with Harvard over her firing because her lawyers felt that the University did not want to attract media attention from the dismissal, and that the case could be dragged out over a long period, making it difficult to litigate...