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When the CFTC's acting director of enforcement, Stephen Obie, was asked what the most outrageous use of investor money he's come across has been, his list was appropriately wacky. "The craziest things we've found recently," Obie said, "are a bust of Julius Caesar, an extensive garden-gnome collection, a $300,000 Mickey Mouse drawing, bejeweled ink pens, several of which cost more than $100,000, $4 million worth of custom tailored clothes, a silver set allegedly belonging to Paul Revere, and two purple Jaguars with hand-painted leopard-skin roofs." It should be added that Ruth Madoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Spot a Ponzi Con Artist? Follow the Yachts | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

This means two things. 1) The next few weekends won’t be very fun for those of you who rely on alcohol to spit game for you. 2) Easter Sunday is going to be the craziest night since New Year’s Eve, since a good chunk of campus will suddenly have a much lower tolerance...

Author: By Charleton A. Lamb | Title: Trend Alert: No Alcohol for Lent | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...Drinking that doesn't contain a punch line; only when she writes about her brushes with madness does Fisher drop her manic stand-up shtick and let us see, for a moment, what it's there to cover up. Ironically, it's when she's describing herself at her craziest that she sounds the most sane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Princess Diaries | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...pass to Richards comes just short of a first down. Meanwhile, the Toast Zamboni has come out on the track to clean up the toast. According to fellow staff writer Brad Hinshelwood, it's a product of someone's senior thesis. According to me, that's quite possibly the craziest thing I've ever heard of, but if you can get class credit for something like that, it may also be the most brilliant thing I've ever heard...

Author: By Crimson staff | Title: LIVE BLOG: HARVARD AT PENN (11/15) | 11/15/2008 | See Source »

Gaydamak's craziest scheme may be relying on the Arab vote. Not only does he risk losing his Beitar supporters, but traditionally, Jerusalem's Arabs seldom vote. Over the decades, the Palestinian leadership has urged Arabs to boycott municipal elections, claiming that it would validate Israel's "illegal" claim to the city. But the city's Arabs lose everything by refusing to vote. Without anyone lobbying for them on the city council, Arabs receive just one-tenth of municipal services - they have fewer schools, clinics, playgrounds and road repair - despite paying taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bizarre Race to Be Jerusalem's Mayor | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

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