Updated: Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 4:42pm
For Executive Producer Donald Glascoff ’67, the Oscar he received Sunday night for best documentary is more than just a pretty statuette — it is also a vindication of his decision to abandon, mid-life, his career as a lawyer and take up public-service filmmaking on a whim. “Taxi to the Dark Side,” which was written and directed by fellow Eli Alex Gibney ’77...
Seven weeks into her first semester at Yale Law School, Elyn Saks LAW ’86 climbed out a window onto the roof of the Law School library, singing about dancing with demons in Florida. Her schizophrenia was spinning out of control again. Eventually Saks managed to return to her room, where she worried about the memos she could not write and the mass murders she thought...
As the only nation with the power to blunt the nuclearization of Iran and North Korea, the United States must act decisively to defuse the threat from those two countries, former Bush administration diplomat John Bolton ’70 LAW ’74 said at the Law School on Thursday. The mustachioed former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations — whose nomination to the post in 2006...
Majoring in American studies at Yale might not seem the typical path to founding one of the most successful Western-owned businesses in China. But, nevertheless, Jack Perkowski ’70 seems to have found the formula for success. The CEO and founder of ASIMCO Technologies, a manufacturing company that produces car and truck engine components, Perkowski’s new book...
The November after he graduated, Christopher Michel ’03 wrote President George W. Bush’s ’68 speech for the annual turkey-pardoning ceremony the White House holds each Thanksgiving. But this past December, Michel received a different assignment: he was ordered to sit down with fellow speechwriters Bill McGurn and Marc Thiessen to outline the president’s State of...
HARTFORD — Almost 35 years after graduating from Yale Law School, Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 returned to Connecticut on Monday to reminisce about her years in the state, discuss her platform on local issues and attempt to drum up a few last votes before next week’s Super Tuesday primary. Clinton spoke and answered questions for almost an hour in a packed gymnasium...
Michael Gates Gill ’63 was a stereotypical Yale boy — white, wealthy and raised in a Bronxville mansion in New York. After college, he spent 26 years at the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, making six figures a year. But nearly five decades after his days of final papers and Gothic lecture halls, Gill has found himself a world away from the Ivory Tower. At age...
Yalies are no strangers to Fortune 500 corner offices. This month, Jeff Bewkes ’74 joined the ranks of Yale CEOs when he took the helm of Time Warner, one of the largest media corporations in the world. Bewkes’ ascent was hardly a surprise — to classmates, analysts and even University President Richard Levin. Observers said Bewkes, long considered Time Warner’s...
Beyond the deceivingly cozy wood paneling of the Gothic-spired Sterling Law Buildings, a dispute over the nature of torture and civil liberties in war time has pitted two Law School alumni against each other in a high-profile public showdown. Visiting Law School lecturer Jonathan Freiman LAW ’98 has come under fire from pundits and politicians in over the past week for...
Posted Monday 4:50 p.m. NORMAN, Okla. — University of Oklahoma President and former Yale Corporation trustee David Boren ’63 played host to more than a dozen centrists from both major political parties here this morning at a forum and press conference aimed at the “restoration of bipartisanship in the political arena.” New York City Mayor Michael...
Posted Saturday Dec. 15 George H. W. Bush ’48 retired from politics 14 years ago, but he still knows how to work a room. On Friday evening in New Haven, after all, nearly 200 guests crowding Mory’s jockeyed for the chance to shake the 83-year-old elder statesman’s hand. The black-tie-optional soirée, with a $100 suggested donation, honored the 41st...
Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton ’70 LAW ’74 said he began writing his recently released 450-page book immediately upon leaving his appointed position in January — and finished it in June. As a result, perhaps, “Surrender is Not an Option” carries the same cadence and tone as his in-person interview with the News last Wednesday: firm and...
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