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...this doesn't mean Posen will make it. The fashion business has such a ferocious appetite for the new and young that it grinds them up early and completely. Exhibits A, B and C: the tormented careers of former guys-to-buy Miguel Adrover, Todd Oldham and Isaac Mizrahi...
...want to know what it was singing? Certainly. It was a plea to Israel from the Arab people. The chorus was, "We have the same father. Why do you treat us this way?" Who might the father be? I asked. "Ibrahim," he said. "The song is called Ismail and Isaac," after his sons...
...opera. Convinced she will have no children, Sarah offers him her young Egyptian slave Hagar to produce an heir. It works. The 86-year-old fathers a boy, Ishmael. Yet God insists that Sarah will conceive, and in a wonder confirming Abraham's faith, she bears his second son, Isaac. Jealous of Hagar's and Ishmael's competing claims on her husband and his legacy, Sarah persuades Abraham to send them out into the desert. God saves the duo and promises Hagar that Ishmael will sire a great nation through 12 sons (assumed by tradition to be 12 Arab tribes...
...Jeff Bingaman ’65 (D-N.M.) The catalogue of what I don’t know is too vast to describe. Isaac Newton put it better than I can: “I don’t know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before...
Many of today's alternative approaches are clever updates of old techniques. As part of the launch of new talk shows hosted by Isaac Mizrahi and Carrie Fisher, respectively, women's cable network Oxygen has dispatched ice-cream trucks to cruise the streets of New York City and Los Angeles and give out specially labeled popsicles and vitamin waters touting the coming broadcasts. Procter & Gamble sent out a trailer of elegant, air- conditioned Porta Potties, complete with hardwood floors and aromatherapy candles, to state fairs last summer to extol the virtues of Charmin toilet paper. Bottled-water producer Evian paid...