Word: philos
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...administration has been improving what Israelis call “The Situation.” Second, they think the “War on Terror” will take down an alleged common source of anti-Israel and anti-American wrath. Third, they are comforted by the apparent philo-Semitism of Bush’s evangelical Christian belief system...
Television The first show was a glass panel with a line drawn on it. In 1927, as Philo Farnsworth watched a receiver, his brother-in-law turned a slide in front of a camera. "There you are," said Farnsworth, "electronic television." It was not that simple: Farnsworth spent the next two decades fighting with RCA over patent rights, sinking into depression and drinking. He forbade his kids from watching TV, saying there was nothing worthwhile...
...label would cope with the loss of her celebrity. A good deal of her personal fame - she's Beatle Paul's daughter, hangs out with people like Madonna and is a high-profile antifur campaigner - had rubbed off on the French fashion house. Her successor and friend, Phoebe Philo, was regarded as a talented designer, but she was not exactly a household name. The fashion world loves nothing better than a catfight; speculation immediately began about a competition between the two women, and intensified when McCartney's solo debut proved a disaster. (Her subsequent collections won praise.) Philo's work...
McCartney's departure allows the label to expand into areas previously barred by her animal-rights concerns - particularly in leather goods. Chloé's new London store shows how much the company is enjoying that freedom. The lower ground floor is given over to Philo's new collection of leather shoes. The bags upstairs are already selling well. A new bracelet bag that slides over the wrist is priced between around $550 and $1,000, but that didn't stop 28 of them being sold in the first two days. The new store - a mix of marble and plywood...
...based on “a lifelong commitment to fighting racism in all its forms.” There, however, is the rub. Paulin compares Zionists to the SS, yet at the same time excoriates T.S. Eliot, Class of 1910, as anti-Semitic, professing himself a “Philo-Semite” for whom calls for Israel’s destruction are perfectly compatible with his self-proclaimed credentials as an opponent of anti-Semitism—this because, in his view, Zionism is tantamount to racism. Paulin declares: “You are either a Zionist...