Word: friendships
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...Shortly before Hagee's tour, American Rabbi Eric Yoffie from the liberal Reform Jewish Movement denounced the friendship between Israel and Christian Evangelicals, not only because Hagee and his like-minded brethren reject the two-state solution (with East Jerusalem as capital of a future Palestinian state) but because they are often at odds with liberal Jews in the U.S. over such incendiary topics as abortion and gay rights...
Lake denies he cut his old friend out of the foreign policy brain trust, saying he had left town when the spoils of election victory were being divided. But the friendship seemed severed and now, with Lake serving as top foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama and Holbrooke a front runner for Secretary of State under Hillary Clinton, the two men find themselves in one of the most high-stakes competitions of their careers...
...concerns of Scorsese's docs reflect those of his fiction films: the yearning for roots, the twisted bonds of friendship, the lure of the forbidden, the appreciation of craftsmanship. The nonrock docs are such a crucial part of his artistic life, it's a shame they're not widely available. Where's an essential DVD when you need...
Jarrett, 52, is that kind of friend to the Obamas--she can tease and cry and in the next moment weigh in on policy matters. She has been called the dean of Barack's kitchen Cabinet, but her role has changed over their 17-year friendship: first as Michelle's boss at Chicago's city hall, later as finance chair for Barack's Senate campaign...
...effects on the storyteller. Roza begins to worry that Chris will lose interest in her, so her stories grow ever more fanciful: in one, she gains passage on a ship by seducing the captain with her cooking. It's a tension that reflects De Bernières' friendship with the real Roza, who vanished from his life three decades ago: "Even today I'm not actually sure whether or not her stories were true...