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...professors argue that the "Israel Lobby"—a "loose coalition of individuals and organizations" including national Jewish leaders, Christian evangelicals like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, Republican congressmen, and columnists for the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post—has pushed the U.S. to adopt excessively pro-Israel stances...
They professors argue that the “Israel Lobby”—a “loose coalition of individuals and organizations” including national Jewish leaders, Christian evangelicals like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, Republican congressmen, and columnists for the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post—has pushed the U.S. to adopt excessively pro-Israel stances...
...graduate of Bowdoin College, Schendler insulated trailers for the poor before joining Amory Lovins' famed Rocky Mountain Institute. He found a kindred spirit in ASC president and CEO Pat O'Donnell, although the road to environmental enlightenment at ASC hasn't always been smooth. It took four years to persuade the company to retrofit a parking garage with fluorescent light fixtures, a move Schendler calculates rid the atmosphere of 300,000 lbs. of CO2 annually...
...PHILIP KUNHARDT JR., 78, managing editor of LIFE who went on to produce such historical PBS documentaries as Freedom and The American President; in Chappaqua, N.Y. Kunhardt also wrote numerous books, including The Dreaming Game, about his mother, children's author Dorothy M. Kunhardt, who created the 1940 classic Pat the Bunny...
...great melt may not bode well for polar bears or Inuits, but it could be a boon for shipping and transportation entrepreneurs, and none has stepped into the icy breach with more foresight than Pat Broe, a Denver-based real-estate and railroad magnate. The press-shy Broe, 58, who describes himself as a junk dealer ("I buy troubled stuff and turn it around," he says), has a history of contrarian investments. When he purchased 807 miles of nationally owned railway stock from the Canadian government for $11 million in 1997, he also picked up, for the token...