You think slavery went out with Abraham Lincoln? Ask my friend Sreypov Chan about that. She's a cute young Cambodian woman with a love for Kelly Clarkson songs and Tom & Jerry cartoons. But when she was seven years old, her mom sold her into sexual slavery.

This past summer,...

Want to know what Bernie Madoff faces in jail?

Jennifer Wilkov will tell you. Accused of being involved in a small real-estate scam, she spent four months in New York City's notoriously violent Rikers Island prison, even though she tells Marie Claire magazine this month that she's innocent.

It seems that even bloodthirsty terrorists can fall googly-eyed in love.

Reporter Paul Cruickshank, in the March issue of Marie Claire, tells the disquieting tale of how a middle-class Belgian woman fell in love with a budding Islamic terrorist, married him, and allegedly became a terrorist herself.

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On paper at least, 2008 was the year that women took it on the chin: The electorate sent Hillary packing, Marion Jones fessed up to doping, and Sarah Palin couldn't name any newspapers she reads. Still, we at Marie Claire have calculated that womanhood managed to clock in with...