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Letter About Palin Goes Viral
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:05:00 -0400
This week in Wasilla, Alaska, a woman named Anne Kilkenny sent a letter to some college friends about her former mayor, Sarah Palin. By week's end, the letter was pinging around the country and Kilkenny's phone was ringing off the hook.
Teen Sex, Sex Education And Sarah Palin
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:39:00 -0400
Gov. Sarah Palin has been a strong supporter of programs that advocate abstinence until marriage, and she also opposes explicit sex education. Alaska's law is silent on these issues, however, and it provides no specific funding for sex education in the schools.
Examining Palin's Pentecostal Background
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:14:00 -0400
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has electrified religious conservatives who see her as one of their own. The Republican vice presidential candidate brings evangelical credentials to the ticket and has a Pentecostal background.

The Talk of the Town

Dorothy Wickenden: An old-style, Los Angeles feminist on Obama.
Dorothy Wickenden Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Rosalind Wyman--seventy-seven years old; doughty feminist; political fund-raiser and philanthropist; hostess to J.F.K., Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, and Hollywood types too numerous to count; youngest elected member of the Los Angeles City Council (at the age of twenty-two); first woman to run a national political . . .
Lauren Collins: The Brooklyn painter Kehinde Wiley.
Lauren Collins Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
The painter Kehinde Wiley first travelled to Nigeria in 1997. He was trying to find his father, whom he had never met, or, more crucially for a portraitist, seen. (His mother didn’t have any photographs.) After several weeks in Lagos, he found his dad, who welcomed him. But--like any . . .
James Surowiecki: What drives market volatility?
James Surowiecki Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
American investors are frazzled. True, oil prices have fallen from their most vertiginous highs, the dollar is a bit stronger, and the stock market has actually risen over the past month. But none of those things have happened in a smooth and steady fashion. The stock market’s “ascent,” in particular . . .

 

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Charles K. Ponzi - Details the criminal financial career of Charles K. Ponzi, who gave his name to the Ponzi scheme.

404 In Ponzi We Trust - Describes how con artists today are using the Internet to reinvent the Ponzi scheme. From Smithsonian Magazine, Vol 29 number 9.
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Motherjones.com - The Net As Ponzi Scheme - Article compares the internet stock boom with a Ponzi scheme.
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Ponzi Schemes and Bubble Scam Investment Frauds - Describes the history and workings of this scam.
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Pyramid Scheme Alert - International organization to expose, study and prevent illegal pyramid schemes. Site includes news, alerts, resources, legal information and consumer information.

Pyramid Schemes - A speech by Debra A. Valentine, General Counsel For The U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Describes these schemes, how they can cause financial ruin for governments and banks, and how governments have cracked down on internet get rich quick schemes.

Pyramid Schemes, Ponzi Schemes, and Other Frauds - Describes the many variations of this scam.

SEC.gov - Pyramid Schemes - Explanations, warnings and links to related articles published by U.S. government agencies.

Skeptic's Dictionary: Pyramid Schemes, Chain Letters and Ponzi Schemes - Defines these fraudulent systems of making money which require an endless stream of recruits for success.
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The Ponzi Scheme - Charles Ponzi promised to double your money in just 90 days. Many people did get their money. Read this story to find out how.
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