Mark David Chapman

From Casey’s latex mask to John Lennon’s album, see photos of creepy criminal memorabilia sold at auction.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn's arrest reveals the underside of the discreet French approach to the private lives of public figures—and the monstrous entitlement of his apologists, especially Bernard-Henri Levy. But the Arnold Schwarzenegger scandal shows Americans don't know how to deal with the messy confluence of sex and politics either, says Michelle Goldberg.

With new John Lennon commemorative instruments, the German pen maker is embracing big ideas, and putting to the test that maxim that “the pen is mightier than the sword”