they even insisted I change my name. I was no longer Ehud Brog. I’d Hebraicized it: to Barak, which seemed near enough to the original. Among the few dozen outside the unit who did know about my role, however, were paratroopers who’d joined us on various missions. One of them now...
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Page 1 1 of 11 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2009 Associated Newspapers Ltd. All Rights Reserved The Evening Standard (London) December 24, 2009 Thursday LENGTH: 824 words HEADLINE: CITY SPY BODY: EXPECT more media firms to announce plans to charge for content online in early 2010. City S...
organizations” such as private companies or government departments. Or the armed forces of Israel. The theorists at Stanford were leaders in the field. But from the start, I was drawn to other disciplines as well: business, economics, political science, history, sociology, psych...
two books impressed me mightily. They still do. One is Konrad Lorenz’s On Aggression. An M.D. and a Ph.D. and a 1973 Nobel laureate in medicine and physiology
” but at least by objective standards I’ve exceeded the expectations my high school teachers and principal had for me. None of them thought I was “college material.”
because my academic performance was abysmal. In my senior semester my first half grades were as follows (I still have the report card): English 80; Math 60 (F); Hebrew 65; History 65; Physics 60 (F). With two failing grades
my memory for obscure facts and the “parlor tricks” I played with it got me an interview with the producers of a television game show called “The $64
400 to go to college. (I put the money in an interest bearing account that paid for my first year at law school.) The state scholarship was based entirely on a single
though the formative dynamic was mostly reactive. I think about them often. My wife says I am obsessed with nostalgia for my troubled adolescent past.
I got married to a woman I had met in a Jewish summer camp that boasted of the many “shidachs” (meetings that resulted in marriages) for which it was responsible. I was not yet 21. Sue was 19. My mother wouldn’t let me go to an out of town law school unless I was married
such as economics and science—both physical and social. I worked as a research assistant on Professor Calabresi’s groundbreaking article on law and economics
but I also wanted--indeed I felt I needed--the status that came along with a Supreme Court clerkship in order to obtain the kind of job offers I would be seeking after finishing my clerkships. Two of my other mentors at law school
and he went on to become Dean of Hofstra Law School and one of the nation’s leading experts in legal ethics. I tried to follow in his large footsteps but I’m not sure I ever made as good an oral argument as he did in the Morgan case. It was quite a way to begin my career as a l...
which continue to influence me to this day. There could be no better preparation for my life as a professor at Harvard Law School.
I tended to spend an enormous number of hours preparing for each class. I stayed up the night before planning my questions and strategies and got to the law school at 7:00 am before each class. Naturally I parked in the first available slot in the parking lot. Several days int...