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...look at the regulators? More than the laws, the industry, or the pavement of Wall Street, the real institution that needs to be reformed is the U.S. 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...
Today’s SEC is too 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...
...surrounding Hector Ennepeque, Feydeau’s semi-autobiographical main character, as he waits for his wife Léonie to give birth. His anxiety is exacerbated by snobby in-laws and a domineering midwife. Though the character of the midwife was a pushy Frenchwoman in the Feydeau original, Shapiro??s translation renders her a robust “German frau.” “I thought it would be a little funnier to create this Valkyrie-type character,” he says.Shapiro takes a “certain amount of liberty” with...
...Crimson remained unbeaten in Ivy League play heading into a road match against Cornell. What transpired in Ithaca proved to be the peak of Harvard’s promising season, as the Crimson twice overcame a one-goal deficit in the second half to force an overtime period that Shapiro??s goal ended after less than one minute. “Anytime you pull through in overtime [it] shows a lot of resilience and shows a lot of team character,” Shapiro said. Harvard could not translate this show of fortitude into a championship run through...
This time, Keating was on the delivering end, deflecting senior captain Devon Shapiro??s shot to sophomore midfielder Kristin Bannon, who notched her third goal of the season...