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...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 regulatory oversight. If I sound cynical, it’s because I have been around Wall Street...
Investigators have been unable to rule out sudden acceleration as the cause of Lagakos’ crash, Peterborough police Sergeant Michael Chapdelaine told the Globe on Tuesday...
Most enjoyable of all are a series of three magnificently overblown introductions that build up a cast of bombastic, magnetic supporting characters: Mabel, the Major-General, and the Sergeant of Police. Mabel (Bridget P. Haile ’11), Frederic’s love interest and daughter of Major-General Stanley, bursts onto the scene with a warbling, upper-register tour-de-force that—in addition to causing Frederic to visibly swoon—immediately captures Mabel’s simple-hearted desire to impress...
Considering the relative smallness of his role, the Sergeant of Police (Philipp W. Grimm ’11) is the biggest surprise of the show. Grimm’s Chaplin-esque strut and alternatively glazed and manic eyes make his Sergeant absolutely aloof but somehow loveable. He heads up a police corps that proves just as memorable as the pirates themselves...
...hardly surprising that some soldiers question their presence in Afghanistan. "When we went to Kosovo, we knew what we were there to do - to drive out the bully boys. I didn't know what we were supposed to be doing in Iraq," says one army sergeant who asked that his name not be used. Now in Afghanistan, he considered leaving. "But then I'd have lost my job, my friends," he says. Ferocious loyalty to their comrades and regiments sustains soldiers in the teeth of dangers and privations. "We are going into the heart of darkness," Lieut. Colonel Matt Bazeley...