Word: stanley
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...with some $7 billion invested in his mad world, was run by socialite Walter Noel. But there were dozens of others run by a variety of unregistered funds and characters, including the Ascot Partners fund, run by Ezra Merkin, and on the West Coast, the Brighton Co., run by Stanley Chais, one of three he ran. (See pictures of the demise of Bernie Madoff...
...Like other existentialist plays, the story is secondary to evoking emotion and provoking an audience reaction.The play opens in the dining area of a boardinghouse in a coastal area of England, and immediately launches the audience into the dull lives of Petey and Meg, its proprietors. The entrance of Stanley, an irritable, washed-up pianist and the couple’s only client, adds to the monotony that typifies the characters of the play. However, the ominous arrival of two men dressed in dark suits—Goldberg and McCann—disrupts the established tedium. They inspire...
...order to sell the loans banks will have to recognize losses that could run as high as $200 billion for the sector in general. "The gap between bank marks on these distressed [loans] and their economic value appears to be too wide to be bridged," says Morgan Stanley analyst Richard Berner of the government program...
...Wall Street firms make money when people are in pain," says Frank Partnoy, who once traded credit-derivative contracts at Morgan Stanley and is now a law professor at the University of San Diego. "I don't know if that is what is happening, but if the question is whether banks would converge on a dying body - the answer is, Absolutely...
...Birthday Party” will be on show in the Loeb Expository Theatre from April 3-11. “The Birthday Party” premiered in 1958 and is Pinter’s most critically acclaimed play. The story revolves around the terrorization of Stanley Webber, a failed pianist who lives in a rundown boarding house owned by Meg and Petey Boles, to all appearances a bland couple. The trio seem at first to get along splendidly, displaying a mix of familial and flirtatious affection. But these early moments are merely a foil to those that follow the arrival...