New Photos! Madoffs at Play
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Elie Wiesel's Great Regret
Jonathan Mahler is the author of The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power and the best-selling book Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning. Mahler is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and his work has also appeared The New York Times Book Review, New York magazine, The New Republic and Slate, among other publications.
To commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Nobel Prize-winning author talks to Jonathan Mahler about why he won't use the word "holocaust" ("I use the word "Auschwitz" instead. The name "Auschwitz" should be the one in the conscience."), his views on The Reader ("What it shows is a young man who made love to a woman, and the only person he felt sorry for was the woman!") and how language can never describe the experience of the camps ("We cannot find the words. I still believe that. What we do have now is more information.")
Stop Hating on Madoff Victims
Burt Ross, former mayor of Fort Lee, New Jersey, and former administrator of the New Jersey Energy Office, is a lawyer and real-estate investor. A book The Bribe was written about his exploits with the Mafia.
Yes, I got a tax break for the $5 million I lost with crook extraordinaire Bernie Madoff. It amounted to all of 5 cents on the dollar. Why do people have a problem with that?
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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