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Six years ago, the fondest hope of Carole Ely and Lore Harp was to escape the bored-housewives trap and do something really bold like, say, opening a travel agency. When Lore's husband Bob, a scientist at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, Calif., suggested that they think big...
Having come to Harvard 13 years ago, Ely took a year off six years ago to work as general counsel to the Department of Transportation, at the request of then-Secretary William Coleman, an old friend. In that capacity, he successfully argued in court that the controversial supreme jet, the...
The latter, Ely says, he decided to accept because he's "a little tired of being a professor." Stanford's California site made the decision to leave Harvard that much easier. That transfer, of course, does not please Harvard, "Stanford's good fortune is our great loss," Cox says.
Harvard colleague Parker puts it another way: "Legal academia is as pompous a sector of academia as any, full of hot air and gas. Ely has none of that...It'd be very refreshing to be at a school with him as dean," He adds. "He has certainly got the...
Coming from a man who calls Ely's professional views "grossly middle of the road and insensitive to class distinctions," such praise is noteworthy. But if Ely's colleagues are to be trusted, it suggests something more--that the vast recognition that has come John Hart Ely's way in...