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Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Ilisa Barbash originally planned to make a movie about rural environmentalism, but after three summers in the Montana mountains and over 200 hours of footage, they ended up with one about sheep. In “Sweetgrass,” the husband and wife duo, Visual and Environmental Studies and Anthropology Professor and Associate Curator of Visual Anthropology at the Peabody Museum, respectively, follow hired hands as they bring sheep across the dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth Mountains to graze for the last time...
...Ilisa Barbash: When we were professors the University at Boulder, we got an email from friends at NYU who knew someone who was leasing land to the rancher in the film. He had told them, “I am the last guy to ranch like this, and someone should make a film about me.” He would be the last rancher to ranch in the Absaroka-Beartooth Mountains for the summer. The email asked if we had students who might be interested in doing the movie. We said, “No, we?...
...Some experts, prior to the Madoff mega-swindle, were all for lesser regulation. But now they are rethinking this idea. "Registration of these funds might have helped prevent this," says Barry Barbash, a Washington-based securities lawyer with Wilkie Farr & Gallagher. Barbash was the SEC director of investment management from 1993 to 1998, the time the liberalization took place...
...study showed Barbash and others in the Clinton Administration that there was a need for liberalization for hedge funds. "There was a greater appetite for them, and the 100-person rule was too narrow," says Barbash. "The philosophy was that we needed to cut regulation for larger, more sophisticated investors...
...sure it would have helped stop this crime, but earlier transparency, or registration for the sponsor group [feeder fund] has a logic to it now," says Barbash. "Certainly, I think greater protection would have come if Madoff was forced to register...