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...Ilene Kent, a Madoff investor in New York City who now coordinates a victims' group called the Network for Investor Action and Protection, says Southern Star's advertising "seems deceptive at best" and makes her "feel like we're being used to lure people into auctions for this guy. If so, that really just adds insult to our injury." While Southern Star says it's using the ads as a way to get more bidders out to help Madoff victims, Kent fears Abadi is "just appealing to morbid public curiosity about how the mighty have fallen. But it wasn...
...publishing veteran. His seventh and latest book, the decidedly nonpartisan A Simple Christmas: Twelve Stories That Celebrate the True Holiday Spirit (Sentinel), harks back to Huckabee's roots as a Southern Baptist minister. (Let it be noted, however, that a paperback edition of his fiercely political 2008 best seller, Do the Right Thing, is being published simultaneously.) TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs talked to Huckabee about his electoral plans and the political scene. (See pictures of Devil's Night in Detroit...
...Pugh, who doesn't hide his ambition to be mayor someday, insists his homosexuality matters little to the electorate. "They don't care that I'm gay," he says. "People trust me. And they know I want what's best for Detroit...
...Lieberman, a Connecticut independent who caucuses with the Democrats, has said he cannot vote for the bill as it stands, and moderate Democrats such as Indiana's Evan Bayh, Nebraska's Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas have voiced reservations. Still, Schumer remains upbeat: "Harry Reid is the best vote counter and vote getter that I have ever seen in my 35 years as a legislator," he declared at a press conference on Oct. 29. "We believe we will succeed." (Watch TIME's video "Uninsured Again...