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...capable of tender courtship and dashing romance. Weinstein, whose family was forced to sell their home after being wiped out in Madoff's scam, spoke with TIME about the origins of the affair, how her family has reacted to the book and what may have motivated Madoff to put together what's considered to be the largest Ponzi scheme of all time. (See pictures of the demise of Bernard Madoff...
...overthink. In her fifth experiment, Wood found that when research subjects are prompted to "STOP and THINK CAREFULLY" about a choice - she literally put those commands in capitals in the instructions - people were more likely to opt for their old, familiar choices. The lesson? Don't think, don't look, just leap...
...find out what their life is like. I want to know about their personality, whether they have any addictions to gambling, sex, drugs, cigarettes. The goal is to get someone to go in addiction-free, where they don't need anything from anybody. You don't want to put yourself in debt...
...claims Mohammed divulged crucial information about a plot to crash commercial airliners into Heathrow airport. But the same memo notes that "uncharacteristic for most detainees, [Mohammed] almost immediately following his capture, elaborated on his plan to [attack Heathrow]." This could suggest he gave up the information before he was put on the waterboard. But as with much of the eagerly anticipated documents, its meaning is anything but clear. Which means that far from ending the debate on whether harsh interrogation worked, the inspector general's report and CIA memos have simply provided more grist to both sides of the argument...
...over banks, but under Williams' ordinance, if a lender's number of foreclosure actions in Miami Gardens over a designated period exceeds the number of loan modifications it offers to financially burdened or delinquent homeowners, the city would pull its accounts or other business from that bank. "The taxpayers put these banks back on solid ground with the bailouts," says Williams, "and now it's time the banks did the right thing themselves...