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…help of four pairs of standard-issue Israeli Army socks, develop quite a comely bosom. I rejected the idea of wearing a long dress, in favour of stylishly flared trousers. I was going on a commando operation, after all, not a prom date. But I did wear heels. So yes, a woman, of s...

…deal from my students. My classroom is truly a marketplace of ideas. This should not be surprising, considering my life-long commitment to freedom of expression and the widest exchange of views, as I describe in the next chapter. When I was offered the job at Harvard at age 24,...

…ou know, I think all of us can make a big difference in a lot of other people’s lives and I think that this has gone on long enough and it’s a big slap in my face that he can get away with hurting me so bad let alone so many other girls and laugh about it. I guess I talked to you...

… or two behind — rose up the ranks. In fact, Dan was the reason I’d made one of my rare forays into kirya politics not long after Moshe Vechetzi took over as chief of staff, when Misha Arens was still Defense Minister. I acted to derail what seemed to me a blatant attempt by Mos...

…NA. A “scientific concept" may come from philosophy, logic, economics, jurisprudence, or other analytic enterprises, as long as it is a rigorous conceptual tool that may be summed up succinctly (or “in a phrase") but has broad application to understanding the world. [Thanks to S...

…s and then proceeded to seize grain harvested in the countryside to feed the urban population. The result, according to long-standing estimates, was the death of some 30 mil- lion people in the provinces. Historian Frank Dikotter, who studied the archives in some of the most seri...

… doing these interrogations, because the logic, which | think Mark had mentioned, is, you know, this circular logic. So long as there are trained psychologists from the SERE program who are on site at these interrogations who are saying that these detainees can withstand this tr...

…sign my child over to him basically and that the child would be his and Ghislaine’s, and I would be looking after it as long as nothing happened between Jeffrey and I. So, I was kind of freaked out by all of that. I pushed Jeffrey more to please get me some more training, you kno...

…ar I felt him smile. When he hit me again, I barely moved. After the count of three, he said he wanted to see how much longer I could go, but the answer was that I couldn't -- I started to flinch strongly again. Of course, he kept hitting me, if only for that. But at least I had...

…say about him. He is actually the reason I went to college.” Beverly lost contact with Epstein over the years. But not long after Epstein’s fiftieth birthday, she got a call out of the blue. “He had a photo of us on the beach,” she says. “A friend noticed it at his birthday par...

…s a function of everything player 1 has done in the past. One relatively simple strategy for player 2 is to continue so long as player 1 has cooperated. If both players play according to this pair of strategies, each time the temptation is low, player 1 cooperates and gets a, pla...

… There was a second, critically important part to what I was proposing: the construction of a physical security fence along the new “disengagement line” with the West Bank. It was the suggestion rejected under Rabin, accepted under Peres amid the Hamas bombings in the 1996 elect...

…e speed dial, and spoke rapidly in Russian (which I do not understand.) He cupped his hand over the phone and asked how long I would be in Moscow. After I told him that I was leaving on Friday, he spoke again in to the person on the other end. “You will have an appointment on Th...

…ey care? There are two big reasons. First, if no one signs up for the courses you teach, you won't be teaching them for long. Second, if many students sign up for the courses you teach, you can justify hiring more faculty in your subdiscipline, which means more friends to hang ou...

…My hair is in rollers. Statuesque Julia Koch walks over from her Park Avenue apartment carrying her white Valentino and long diamond earrings. Her real-life financial titan husband David is unaware where she is this morning. Vanity Fair's keeper of the Best Dressed List, Amy Fin...