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...Weinstein, the former CFO of the Jewish women's volunteer organization Hadassah, has written a new book, out Aug. 25, about her yearlong extramarital affair with swindler Bernie Madoff, titled Madoff's Other Secret: Love, Money, Bernie, and Me. Voyeurs won't be left wanting for dirt; the salacious tell-all chronicles their trysts in graphic, almost vengeful detail. Ironically, the 60-year-old Weinstein, who calls Madoff a "beast" and a "monster," has done more than anyone else to humanize the inscrutable investment scammer, painting him as an insecure man capable of tender courtship and dashing romance. Weinstein, whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bernie Madoff's Mistress Speaks | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

...belief - half playful, half serious - that the teleprompter would break, as it had for the hapless governor who placed JFK's name in nomination at the 1960 convention. If it happened that night, the plan was that Kennedy would look toward me, and I would utter a number to tell him what page of the typed text to turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bob Shrum Recalls Ted Kennedy's Greatest Speech | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

...City Aéropostale, whose neighbors include J.C. Penney, no one is shirtless but everything is on sale. No half-nude model greets you at the front door, but a guy barking "Buy one pair of women's jeans, get another free" does. Sales associates don't dance; they tell you deals. Ripped jeans are $30; women's jeans sell for $49.50 (plus the freebie pair); the Aéropostale hoodie is $15, or a quarter of Abercrombie's price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abercrombie & Fitch: Worst Recession Brand? | 8/25/2009 | See Source »

...were counseling someone with a lot of media exposure, like Burress or Bernie Madoff [who also employed a prison consultant], what would you tell them? If you're being followed in the media, well, these correctional facilities have TVs. Once they find out where you're going, they're waiting for you. You're going to be scrutinized by everyone. It's like your first day of school. Take Madoff, for example: there's a bounty on this guy. He's ruined so many lives, screwed so many people over. If he has no fear, he's more psychotic than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What to Expect When You're Going to Jail | 8/25/2009 | See Source »

...tell UNHCR that they should start buying tents [for the communities that would be forced to move in search of drinking water]," says Michael Klingler, a hydrologist and the local director of GTZ, the German government's technical-assistance team, which is advising Yemen on water-management issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Yemen Chewing Itself to Death? | 8/25/2009 | See Source »

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