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‘Death Is Much Better Than Living With a Second Wife’ Mahmoud Ahmad, Arab News JEDDAH, 10 August 2006 — There’s a little saying among married women in Saudi Arabia. It goes like this: Death is much better than living with a second wife. Husbands who have crossed this line from one to more-than-one wife have encountered problems with their first wives. Sometimes these problems end up in violence. Women have resorted to stabbing or burning their husbands in their sleep. Men have discovered that taking on more than one wife has a downside. Polygamy is problematic that way. In a...

Martha Stewart Living HellEight easy-to-follow rules for avoiding a date with the Federal PenitentiaryHere at SmartMoney, we like to believe that our readers are towering icons of moral rectitude who would never dream of playing fast and loose with the securities laws of this great nation. But on the odd chance that a few subscribers are more like Martha Stewart, here are a few suggestions on how to avoid running afoul of the authorities and landing in the calaboose.    1.  Don't lie to the federal investigators. Not to be confused with telling the truth. When asked why you unloaded that...