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  Phillip Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Phillip Adams AO (born 1939) is an Australian broadcaster on the Radio National network of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), filmmaker, author, archaeologist, controversialist, Humanist, social commentator and satirist.
Adams was born in Maryborough, Victoria, the only child of a Congregational Church minister.
Adams is married to Patrice Newell (http://www.virgo.com.au/), and has a 14-year-old daughter Aurora, as well as three older daughters with a previous wife - Saskia, Meaghan and Rebecca Adams.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phillip_Adams   (1225 words)

  
 Skadden > J Phillip Adams
Adams represented General Motors in its 1984 acquisition of Electronic Data Systems, and was the tax attorney on the team that designed and implemented the first "tracking stock." He has been actively involved in the evolution of "tracking stock" technology and has advised with respect to many of the tracking stocks issued by major corporations.
Adams was at the forefront of structuring complex leveraged buyout and leveraged recapitalization transactions, including the recapitalizations of Owens Corning and UAL Corporation.
Adams was resident in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office where he represented clients in disputes with the IRS, and before the Treasury Department and the Congressional tax-writing bodies, as well as continuing his corporate transaction practice.
www.skadden.com /index.cfm?contentID=45&bioID=1557   (317 words)

  
 Phillip A. Adams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Adams, P.A. The relationship of the Protoperlaria and the Endopterygota.
Adams, P.A. Studies in the Neuroptera, with special reference to wing structure and evolution in the Osmyloidea.
Adams, P.A. Ceraeochrysa, a new genus of Chrysopinae (Neuroptera).
biology.fullerton.edu /people/faculty/phil-adams/index2.html   (751 words)

  
 Mark P. Adams, Sergeant, United States Marine Corps
Adams re-enlisted in the Marines and was in his first month of service in Iraq when his family got the news of his death.
Adams of Morrisville, North Carolina, was killed October 15, 2005, by an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations in Saqlawiyah, Iraq.
Mark Adams was the youngest of three sons, all of whom served in the military.
www.arlingtoncemetery.net /mpadams.htm   (2074 words)

  
 Phillip Andrew Adams AO - Senate - The University of Sydney
Phillip Andrew Adams AO The degree of Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) was conferred upon Phillip Adams at the Arts ceremony held at 4.00pm on 6 May 2005.
Phillip is recognised in his own right for his films and has, amongst many AFI awards, won two ‘Best Films’.
Phillip Adams was appointed Foundation Chair for the Commission of the Future, served as Chairman of the National Australia Day Council, and recently co-founded the human rights organisation A Just Australia.
www.usyd.edu.au /senate/committees/AdamsP.shtml   (457 words)

  
 Adjudication 1150
A commentary by writer Phillip Adams in the Weekend Australian, strongly critical of the United States a few weeks after the terrorist attacks on the New York World Trade Center and the Pentagon, angered some readers.
The Council was called on to adjudicate between the rights of opinion writers to enjoy freedom of expression, and the expectation of readers that publication of fact and comment should be honest and fair, with regard to various reasonable sensitivities, as well as the public interest in receiving information.
Phillip Adams is one of Australian journalism's most high profile commentators.
www.presscouncil.org.au /pcsite/adj/1150.html   (813 words)

  
 Phillip Adams: loving anti-Semites and hating President Bush
Phillip Adams ranks as one of Australia's most politically bigoted and dishonest columnists.
Adams wrote of "soaring tensions created by spectacular episodes of police brutality." It seems he thought that New York was on the verge of a race war provoked by its brutal police force and fascist mayor.
Though the number of arrests in the city leapt from 309,000 in 1995 to 403,000 in 1998, police shootings fell sharply, dropping from 344 in 1995 to 249 in 1998.
www.brookesnews.com /032212adamsjews.html   (1132 words)

  
 Phillip Adams AO : Speaker, Public Relations, Arts, Culture, Change, Civil Rights, Compere, Facilitator, Current ...
In his speaking engagements, broadcasts and writing Phillip Adams tackles the urgent questions facing society in the 21st century using wit, humour and provocative opinions to challenge thought and stimulate debate.
Phillip Adams has been Chair of the Australian Film Institute, the Australian Film Commission, the Commission for the Future, the Film Radio and Television Board, Film Australia and the National Australia Day Council.
Phillip provided an enlightening and sometimes challenging speech that reflected his expertise but also was made relevant to his GP audience.
www.celebrityspeakers.com.au /brspeaker_bio.asp?Speaker_Index_Text=13   (545 words)

  
 Phillip Adams is an out and out bigoted liar
Phillip Adams ranks as one of Australia’s most vicious and certainly most dishonest leftwing columnists.
When Adams interviewed (I think it was 1989) Dr Haing Ngor, author of Surviving The Killing Fields, on his radio show, Adams couldn’t bring himself to accept Ngor’s observation that communist ideology was responsible for the mass slaughter in Cambodia and Mao's China.
Phillip Adams and the moral bankruptcy of the left
www.brookesnews.com /061004adams.html   (1224 words)

  
 Late Night Live on Radio National: Phillip Adams
Phillip Adams is a prolific and sometimes controversial broadcaster, writer and film-maker.
Adams' Australia was part of BBC TV's contribution to Australia's bicentennial celebrations.
As well as two Orders of Australia, Phillip was Australian Humanist of the Year (1987), Republican of the Year 2005, and received the Longford Award, the film industry's highest accolade in 1981, the same year that he was appointed Senior ANZAC Fellow.
www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/lnl/presenter.htm   (481 words)

  
 Its A Matter Of Opinion » Blog Archive » Radical Moonbat Gallery - Phillip Adams
Phillip Adams is probably the most decorated and celebrated moonbat in Australian history of Moon-Battery (sorry…I should’ve said “state funded and supported media-socialism”).
The stories of Phillip Adams have always fascinated me because as a “New Australian” coming from behind the Iron Curtain, I thought that this kind of criminal mentality, sheer ignorance and intellectual mediocrity could be treated seriously, celebrated, and even elevated to the highest ranks only in a totalitarian communist regime.
Later, Adams became a proud dad again when his “Jewish” daughter and her leftie friend Lerner were expelled from Israel for “establishing” dialog with PLO.
www.observationdeck.org /weblogs/?p=645   (3206 words)

  
 Phillip Adams / claxton speakers / speaker profile
In his speaking engagements, broadcasts and writing Phillip tackles the urgent questions facing society in the 21st century using wit, humour and provocative opinions to challenge thought and stimulate debate.
As a consultant to prime ministers and premiers, Adams played a key role in the establishment of the Australia Council, the Australian Film Development Corporation, the Australian Film Commission, the South Australian Film Corporation (which became a model for similar organisations in most states) and the Australian Film Finance Corporation.
Adams has been Chair of the Australian Film Institute, the Australian Film Commission, the Commission for the Future, the Film Radio and Television Board, Film Australia and the National Australia Day Council.
www.claxtonspeakers.com.au /speakers_profile/3   (411 words)

  
 Atheist Correspondence with Phillip Adams
Phillip Adams has made himself a part of the scenery here in Australia by contributing weekly columns to a leading "high-brow" newspaper, as well as hosting ABC Radio National's Late Night Live (supposedly an intellectual chat show) most nights of the week.
Phillip, the uncertainty of all concepts, formulae, explanations, philosophical constructs, etc is something I realized a long time ago.
Socrates: Phillip, in your correspondence with brother David, one of the few true atheists of your era, and a kindred spirit of mine, you accuse him of smugness, inferring that he has not spoken the Truth.
theabsolute.net /minefield/adams.html   (10283 words)

  
 Peter Adams — Randolph Adams : ZoomInfo Business People Information
Adams is currently involved in sickle cell disease research involving the life...
Adams was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on June 27, 1918.
Adams advises and represents employers in a broad range of employment law matters arising under federal and...
www.zoominfo.com /people/level2page245.aspx   (1809 words)

  
 Phillip Adams
Guest Speaker: Phillip Adams AO Phillip Adams, millionaire socialist and sometime Marxist, addressed the Middle East tragedy, praising Robert Fisk’s work there as a reporter, and scathingly attacked President George Bush’s unilateralism.
Adams replied that he had always opposed it; and this had lost him many friends.
Again we have emerging from the ruins of a ‘gutless’ profession (using Phillip Adams’ phrase) the prototype of a fearless journo, thanks to the Internet – and that is good for our moral and intellectual vigour.
www.adelaideinstitute.org /Media/adams.htm   (2793 words)

  
 Late Night Live - presenter Phillip Adams biography
As presenter of Late Night Live, he has interviewed thousands of the world's most influential politicians, historians, archaeologists, novelists, theologians, economists, philosophers and sundry conversationalists.
Phillip's laid back approach has become a trade-mark for Late Night Live, as has his humour, curiosity, his ability to flesh out rare insights from his guests, and his amazing store of anecdotal knowledge.
As well as two Orders of Australia, Phillip was Australian Humanist of the Year (1987) and received the Longford Award, the film industry's highest accolade in 1981, the same year that he was appointed Senior ANZAC Fellow.
www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/lnl/padams.htm   (492 words)

  
 Phillip Adams - 1990 Auckland Commonwealth Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Phillip Adams 01 - Jan. 29, 1990 - Australia's Gold Medallists in the Pairs 25m Centre Fire Pistol Standing, left, Phillip Adams and
Phillip Adams 02 - Jan. 27, 1990 - Phillip Adams from Forbes in NSW and Ben Sandstrom with their Gold and Silver Medals in the Men's Free Pistol in Auckland at the XIVth Commonwealth Games.
Phillip Adams holds the record for the most medals won by a competitor at a Commonwealth Games and has competed in the most games with 5 Games.
www.1earthmedia.com /sport_photo/adams.htm   (153 words)

  
 Chunky Move - People - Phillip Adams
Phillip Adams is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts and lived and worked in New York for a decade after being awarded the ANZ International Fellowship award in 1988.
Phillip was director of the Melbourne Fashion Fringe 2000.
Phillip will be creating a new commission for the Rotterdam Dance Company in August 2003.
www.chunkymove.com /PP18.html   (289 words)

  
 Phillip M. Adams Colloquium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The presentation will culminate in a detailed discussion of how a simple defect nearly brought a major ($44 billion) multi-national corporation to the brink of insolvency.
Phillip Adams, a graduate of the University of Utah, has held a variety of academic and industrial positions in Computer Science.
He holds over a dozen patents and patents-pending in technical areas ranging from processor cache design to Java interpreters.
www.cs.utah.edu /dept/colloq/1999-00/adams.html   (274 words)

  
 Phillip Adams | MetaFilter
Just that they pose better questions." This attack (read the response), by the Australian Atheist society on Phillip Adams, is a good introduction to the Australian writer and broadcaster who presents probably the best, most thoughtful hour of radio on the planet.
Adams: There are truths, but humans shouldn't have any delusions of ever being able to figure them out.
Adams is certainly smarter than most, but it's important to remember that what you're hearing on radio is Adams, supported to no small degree by his producers/researchers, feeding him live information as he talks.
www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/43951   (2732 words)

  
 So What’s Changed? - Phillip Adams « Al Upton and the miniLegends
Speaker - Phillip Adams- broadcaster, writer and film-makers, presenter of ABC Radio National’s Late Night Live.
Phillip Adams suggests that there is nothing new he can tell us!!!
Al, what a great point Phillip Adams makes about kids of today not being media-savvy, just swept up in the culture.
alupton.wordpress.com /2006/08/02/so-whats-changed-phillip-adams   (1122 words)

  
 Professor Bunyip
Then all could agree that Adam's ubiquity was a form of cultural oppression, get fired up at what, for some youngsters, has been an entire life of unjust exposure, and unite to burn down a railway station or two.
True, the comment isn't in direct quotes, but since the byline is that of Sheena McLean rather than, say, Phillip Adams or, indeed, that of Forbes himself, we readers are reasonably entitled to assume it is both an accurate paraphrasing and faithful rendering of what Forbes said and meant.
Having waited until the Professor dropped his weaponry, the scamp slid out from beneath the sofa and announced that keeping track would detract from the real enjoyment to be gained by listening attentively to the latest sermon from the TV pulpit that we taxpayers erect for David's oh-so-evident pleasure.
bunyip.blogspot.com /2004_02_01_bunyip_archive.html   (14919 words)

  
 The Basement: Phillip Adams regrets helping to form Family First   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Basement: Phillip Adams regrets helping to form Family First
Phillip Adams regrets helping to form Family First
Today in the Australian, there was an opinion piece by Phillip Adams regretting his role in the formation of the Family First party.
www.poliblog.org /2004/12/phillip_adams_r.html   (483 words)

  
 About Phillip Adams | Phillip Adams biography | The Australian
For over 40 years Phillip Adams' columns in major newspapers and magazine have provoked discussion and outrage.
Honours include two Orders of Australia, Republican of the Year 2005; the Senior ANZAC Fellowship, the Australian Humanist of the Year, the Golden Lion at Cannes, the Longford Award (for services to the film industry), the Henry Lawson Australian Arts Award and four honorary doctorates from Australian universities.
The International Astronomical Union named a minor planet orbiting the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter Phillip Adams in 1997.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,1860505-12273,00.html   (349 words)

  
 Phillip Adams shoots cats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Phillip Adams, ABC radio commentator and writer for the Australian, shoots cats.
On the 23rd of February 2000, Phillip Adams interviewed Donald W. Engels (an American author who wrote Classical Cats: The Rise and Fall of the Sacred Cat) on Late Night Live.
Adams stated in this interview that when he sees a cat on his property he gets out his gun and shoots it.
members.iinet.net.au /~rabbit/pawho.htm   (171 words)

  
 Adams Family Line
Abraham Adams b.1639 Salem, MA d.June 14, 1714 Newbury, MA
Phillip Adams b.1632 Braintree, MA d.1692 Indian Massacre, York, ME
Mary Adams b.Jan. 16, 1672 d.Jan. 17, 1714 Newbury, MA m.Nov.26, 1694 at Newbury, MA George Thurlow
www.geocities.com /helenehaw/Adams.html   (749 words)

  
 Phillip Adams Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
A compelling family biography of the Nehru-Gandhi clan based on the four-part PBS series, this companion volume traces the family's political legacy through peace, war, death, imprisonment, and terrorism to the present day, and chronicles the triumph and tragedy of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and her ill-fated heirs, Sanjay and Rajiv...
Since the arrival of the Spanish in the sixteenth century, the Maya population of Guatemala has been forced to adapt to extraordinary challenges.
A perceptive study of the past political year is presented in this collection of Australian political cartoons created by such sardonic luminaries as Judy Horacek, Jon Kudelka, Sean Leahy, David Pope, Andrew Weldon, and Cathy Wilcox.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Phillip_Adams   (538 words)

  
 Tim Blair
Adams may as well write that Bush is President despite a decline in Maine's lobster population.
RADIO NATIONAL host Phillip Adams is Australia's most politically correct media personality.
At least Adams' producer came out to me afterwards and said she wanted to interview me for a series she's doing on crime novelists, so something good came out of it.
timblair.blogspot.com /2002_09_08_timblair_archive.html   (7212 words)

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