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There's a lot of room for speculation when it comes to the Yale secret society Skull and Bones. During the 2004 presidential campaign, George W. Bush commented it was "a secret society; so secret, I can't say anything more." And when John Kerry was...
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One of the great tragedies of my childhood involved Olivia Newton-John. It wasn't her 1981 video for Physical, although, in retrospect, the spandex spawned therefrom was a tragic crime of fashion. No, it was three years earlier: her introduction to a mass audience...
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Before there was Facebook or Google - even before there was Microsoft - one of the most successful ventures to come out of a college dorm room was National Lampoon. As chronicled in the terrific (but definitely R-rated) documentary "Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead," National Lampoon was founded by two editors of the Harvard Lampoon who convinced...
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Three years ago, following the fourth ASU-GSV Summit (the first to move off campus to the Phoenician), the UV Letter explained why our little industry get-together was like the classic John Hughes film The Breakfast Club. Fast forward three years, our get-together is a little more star-studded...
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Based on the response to the last UV Letter, there appears to be some enthusiasm for more stories from law school. Here's my favorite, also starring my brother Aaron.
Aaron's a big guy (6'4") with an even bigger heart. Back in law school, he was intensely aware...
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Elder siblings are supposed to set a good example for younger siblings. But as I've observed with my three boys, if a younger sibling copies the elder's behavior too closely, it likely ends in fisticuffs.
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What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas. While this may be a catchy marketing slogan for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, I haven't been able to adhere to it. I keep writing about Vegas, from my first visit a quarter century ago, to a more recent...
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I left my home in Canada to live in the United States, drawn by America's great universities and by a belief that free markets were preferable to Canadian monopolies on sales of beer and donuts. So one thing that continues to puzzle me is how universities in the land of the free manage to keep pricing virtually all degree programs the same.
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The first movie I attended without a parent was Gung Ho! The comedy starred Michael Keaton (Mr. Mom) and Gedde Watanabe (the wacky Japanese kid from Sixteen Candles) and portrayed a Japanese automaker taking over an American assembly plant.
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I grew up in Toronto in the oldest house on my block. In the 19th century it had been the farm house, well beyond the overly polite Canadian hustle and bustle. One day in fifth grade I was home after school eating a snack in the kitchen when I heard what sounded like my violin playing upstairs. This was weird because I thought I was alone, home before my siblings or nanny. I raced upstairs to my room in the attic and flipped on the light in the creepy closet which was the venue of most of my nightmares. My violin was out of its case on the floor, the bow leaning improbably against the strings. I ran downstairs and confirmed that no one else was home. Or at least, no other human.
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