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...months ago, I received an invitation to attend a film festival in Israel. I contacted the Lebanese consulate in Los Angeles and was advised not to go. I was told that if I went, I would not be able to enter Lebanon again. Lebanon and Israel are still at war, and it is illegal for Lebanese nationals to have any contact with Israelis. "What if I say I want to go to Palestine?" I asked. "There is no Palestine yet, so stay away from it," I was told...
...remember having any contact with either a Palestinian or a Jew until 1976. A street game called ballon chasseur, or hunting ball, was catching fire in Lebanon. The game consisted of two teams of six in which one team player would throw a ball at a member of the other team. If the recipient caught the ball without dropping it, the ball thrower ended up a prisoner of the other team. But if the ball hit a rival team member and was not caught, the unlucky fellow ended up a prisoner of the ball-throwing team...
...insisted, at about a billion years old, was not old enough for any advanced life-forms to have evolved on its planet, let alone the intelligent, relentlessly logical Vulcans. But Epsilon was the star of choice in at least one Star Trek book, and the Earthling who first made contact with the Vulcans was ZEPHRAIM COCHRANE--just an extra e away from Texas astronomer Cochran. Talk about a mind meld...
...lurching up the aisle, reaching out to slap hands while oddly keeping his trunk almost entirely still. And yet there was a moment: hitting the podium, he and Tipper lip-locked in the most passionate kiss I've seen in American politics, a faces-moving kiss, a full-body-contact kiss, a Parental Advisory Label, get-a-room kiss that may well have involved tongue. Coming from a man who doesn't seem to clear his throat in public without a triple-vetted script, this was a fascinatingly private...
...near Dallas, and had worked his way up from wedge shots to the middle irons. Then suddenly, on one swing, he sensed--for the first time in a year--that he had done exactly what he had been trying to accomplish. The motion felt natural and relaxed, and the contact solid. The ball flew high and straight...