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While many other boutique brokerage firms sold out to larger firms, Madoff Securities stayed a family business. Madoff for years ran the firm with his brother Peter. More recently, much of the market-making division was headed by Madoff's two sons, Andrew and Mark...
...utter defiance of this convention that makes Frank Langella’s portrayal of Richard Nixon so wholly fascinating, and by extension, makes “Frost/Nixon” a mesmerizing film to behold.The plot, inspired by true events and adapted for the screen by Peter Morgan from his Tony Award-winning stage play, is encapsulated within its title. “Frost/Nixon” tells the story of David Frost (Michael Sheen), a British comedian, who sets out to interview disgraced ex-President Richard Nixon (Langella). What begins for Frost as a publicity stunt quickly grows into...
...since August, some were agitating to ditch the R word and replace it with the more ominous D one. "Shall we call it a depression now?" asked former Labor Secretary Robert Reich. "The threat of a widespread depression is now real and present," argued the University of Maryland's Peter Morici...
...Philip J. Fisher in “Seduction of a Proper Gentleman” 3. Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 in “Men! Men! Men!” 4. Bret Johnston in “A Literary Dandy” 5. Rev. Peter J. Gomes in “Codpiece in a Convent!” 6. Alison Simmons in “Platonic Forms ... of Passion” 7. Steven Pinker in “Mind Fuck?...
...Staff writer Peter F. Zhu can be reached at pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...