Results for “Drew Oosterbaan”

…sychoanalytic training- induced, Freudian-Darwinian instinctual conflict, driven by fears of starvation and castration, drew me tighter into the world of meaningless, coin flip probabilities. Our house was a block away from a West Los Angeles synagogue and we knew the Rabbi and...

…mmon ideologies, whether faith in Marxist revolution or ultraconservative, anticommunist reaction. As the 20th century drew to a close, the weaknesses of both communist systems and traditional dictator- ships became increasingly apparent. Front and center was the growing economi...

… an increasingly uncomfortable thorn in Israel’s side. I was head of Sayeret Matkal by then. Over a period of months, I drew up a carefully constructed plan — a raid by helicopter into a Fatah-dominated area in southeastern Lebanon, during one of Arafat’s intermittent, morale-boo...

… else are you interested in? Peter is best for currency; maybe Reid Hoffman (fatty at LinkedIn) or Dave Morin (Path) or Drew Houston (Dropbox). I do believe China offers the best opportunities for Sinofsky. Problem is after Windows, pretty much everything else in the US is a step...

…he plan. That was what now ended any prospect of military action, at least for a few months. Bibi, Lieberman and I withdrew into a side room to talk with the chief of staff, Gaby Ashkenazi, as well as the heads of military intelligence, the Mossad and and Shin Bet. We emphasized...

to get air support, but the commander of our artillery force called in all available units, and they drew a kind of protective box of shellfire around Ira’s men as they moved back. We sent our other reserve division towards the crossroads to provide support, and Amram went with t...

…mendation was an award for the achievements the whole sayeret. Dado did me another good turn. As my stint as commander drew to an end, I knew what I hoped to do next in the army: to use my tank training to work my way up the command chain in the armored corps. But like past saye...

…the summit, there was not only no sign of flexibility. There was little meaningful engagement. Dennis Ross and his team drew up a paper setting out the main issues. For those on which we differed, our positions were marked with “I” and “P”. It wasn’t until around midnight on day-...

…e at Learning Ginia Bellafante — New York Times This year, a study administered by researchers at Harvard and Stanford drew significant attention for what it revealed about how inadequately low-income students are represented at selective colleges and universities. Only 34 perce...

…e million dollars. Well past midnight, we started looking at our options. One which seemed — briefly — to hold promise drew on suggestions from Ido Ambar and Mookie. Ido’s almost rhapsodic description of the capabilities of our C-130 Hercules transport planes convinced us we cou...

…tional Review, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, the Guardian, The Korea Herald, and the Irish Times; and it even drew the attention of President Obama. "A full-length book is necessary for several reasons," writes Lukianoff. "First, even with the article’s generous word l...

…l man with a Mr. Magoo stature and an old-fashioned Southern accent, Sessions was bitterly mocked by the president, who drew a corrosive portrait of physical and mental weakness. Insult trauma radiated out of the Oval Office. You could hear it when passing by. Bannon’s efforts t...

… system, became the first female Chinese head of the service. She was later fired over a controversial interview that drew the official ire of the PRC, which threatened repercussions.*’ Since her dismissal, VOA’s Mandarin service has resumed a pattern of avoiding stories that...

…on Is Epstein some sort of scam artist, like Ripley? had been question enough. And throughout the wouldn't miss as they drew their own conclusions about Epstein’s life story. It came through clearly in the first line of the last paragraph of Ward's 7,500-word “Many people comme...

…e Golani Brigade, so he knew the terrain along the border. Avraham could not hide his own nervousness as the operation drew nearer. A week before we were due to set off, he asked whether we were planning a further, full-scale exercise. When I said the final run-through was set f...