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...Sure, experts say, he'll cough up the obvious brokerage accounts, client names, and offshore and numbered accounts that dealt directly with his investment company, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC. And he'll begrudgingly concede the $7 million Park Avenue pad, the Palm Beach digs, the yachts, the French villa and the Montauk getaway. But no one believes he'll tell authorities where all the booty is stashed - not a chance, unless it saves him from walking the plank. It's the equivalent of the British government asking the infamous pirate Captain Kidd if he wouldn't mind handing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Has Bernie Madoff Buried His Loot? | 1/7/2009 | See Source »

...teacher, she has abilities that I barely comprehend,” he wrote in an e-mail. “I have no idea how she acquired her skill, other than to be sure that she didn’t get it from...

Author: By Weiqi Zhang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Chance Road to Harvard | 1/7/2009 | See Source »

...sure they’re celebrating in New Haven,” said Brian Leiter, a legal blogger and law professor at the University of Chicago. “She did bring a sleeping giant back to life on the market for faculty. It made things tough for lots of places...

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students, Faculty Lament Departure Of Popular Dean | 1/7/2009 | See Source »

...This is a puzzle," Lustig says. "And I'm sure Mr. Jobs meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Ailing Steve Jobs? Medical Opinion Varies | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

...resolved in the waning moments of 2007 to become a better listener in 2008. Sure, I wasn’t the worst listener around—I could certainly carry on a coherent conversation. But there were times when I would repeatedly ask the same questions, fail to understand the conclusion of a story, or even bid someone new farewell with the wrong name. And while it may not have cost me any friendships, my simple lack of attention in common verbal circumstances made me feel self-centered too often...

Author: By Marcel E. Moran | Title: Lend Your Ears | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

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