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Originally, the prosecution agreed to bail. Do you think the prosecution would have had an easier time getting him jailed now if they had asked for it originally? Yes, the judge actually used the government's earlier position against it in the opinion...
...think it hurts the prosecutors' case that Madoff was charged with this massive crime, and then the next few days he was seen walking around smiling? I don't think it hurts the government in court, but I think it definitely inflamed public opinion. That led to an outcry that he should have been jailed in the first place and some media disagreement with the government's opinion not to seek detention in the first place...
...that play into the government's decision to come back to the judge and ask for Madoff to be jailed? I don't think so. I know the prosecutors who made these decisions, and they are straight shooters who are not influenced by public opinion. I think they made a reasonable calculation the first time, and I think Madoff's flagrant disobeyance is good grounds to rethink that...
...opinion of that Bush owes no apologies for failing to foresee economic crisis because, hey, no one saw it coming...
...Paribas Masters in November, he insisted that what really needed changing was the length of the professional tennis season, not his game. (Two days later, tendinitis in his knee forced him to withdraw from the event.) "The Tour is very tough because the season is too long in my opinion," he told TIME as he melted four squares of butter into a steaming heap of plain pasta. (A portion of salmon waited to one side). "Next year is going to be very difficult for me because I have had such a tough season already...