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...Securities and Exchange Commission. When I was asked by a senior member of the House Committee on Financial Services about Mary L. Shapiro’s appointment to the chairmanship of the SEC, I simply said that she was the sergeant at the donut shop while Bernard "Bernie" L. Madoff absconded with old ladies’ pensions. She’s another card in an old deck of the dysfunctional world of financial regulatory oversight. If I sound cynical, it’s because I have been around Wall Street and the financial-services business for over 35 years...
...political and a fiendish meritocracy. Underpaid and undereducated, the SEC staff and enforcement personnel must bring home the bacon to headquarters, or their jobs are on the line. (Was Shapiro’s deciding vote against Goldman intended to make up for her sin of oversight with Madoff?) The SEC staff, like the traffic cop at the end of the month, must meet a quota for writing tickets—or, in effect, they must find some dirt on the companies they examine, whether it’s there...
from heavy metal to seductive songs,” Madoff says. Stone even extended his creativity to the props. “At one point, a microwave and a ‘soup-in-hand’ will appear on the stage,” Madoff says...
...Noah J. Madoff ’12, who plays Pericles, stresses that an innovative play like this one needs an innovative director. “This play has a cluttered, bizarre script that doesn’t follow the rules of normal Shakespeare—but Adam has been fearless in editing, cutting, and reworking the production,” Madoff says. Stone adds, “I just developed the production word for word from the script based on the images and references that filtered into my mind and that of the cast.” In addition...
Stone also places importance on the ideas of his cast. “The ensemble process is very important to me,” he says, “and I casted students who could bring something unique to the final production.” Madoff notes that Stone is skilled in bringing out the best in his cast. “Adam is remarkably good at extracting from the script—and from...