Nov 28, 2014

He is a Harvard law professor, known both for his legal work and his staunch defense of Israel. Among his clients - Leona Helmsley, Mike Tyson, Michael Milken, Claus von Bulow, O.J. Simpson. We met last summer at a gamelan concert, that old Indonesian meet-cute.

Nov 15, 2014

Although regularly matched against bigger players, including Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul-Jabaar, the Celtics great won championships, MVP awards and in 1991 was inducted into the basketball hall of fame.

Nov 7, 2014

During her tenure as food critic for the New York Times, she ate as many as 4 restaurant meals per day. But not in the same sitting. That would have been silly.

Nov 1, 2014

Host of NPR's The Takeaway, he placed himself in danger covering wars in the Persian Gulf, Somalia, Kosovo and Afghanistan and, perhaps most perilously of all, writing a scathing review of a Clint Eastwood movie.