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...lazy Vanilla. I found myself speaking in a loud, pastoral voice, saying, "My friend is amazingly talented, huh? Someone who perhaps should quit his day job and write a serious piece of literary fiction. He is what I believe is called a writer's writer." The woman behind the counter agreed, in that she didn't say anything. But she did tell me that my ice cream name stood out from the hundreds of entries, making it to the short list of five. I figured one of the others was my other suggestion, A Very Good Flavor that...
Then I noticed that the flavor was spelled "Chunky Jo," which pretty much ruined my clever coffee pun. When I started to complain to the 18-year-old at the counter, who seemed sweet though unaccustomed to people from New York City screaming at her about intellectual property law, she explained that the owner of the Ice Cream Man was named Jo and that, yes, he was a bit overweight. Depressed and, frankly, sick to my stomach after eating three pints of ice cream, I left...
...even greater advantage to those candidates with the largest war chest and turning elections into fundraising battles rather than old-fashioned stump-debates. For a system of group primaries to work, there would have to be substanial campaign finance reform that would allow legitimate candidates free air time to counter their financial advantage...
...stood as the only reason for Israel to concede the Golan, Barak would not be in Shepherdstown today. Rather, Barak has assessed that security arrangements on the Golan, which could include an early warning station, airborne surveillance and demilitarized zones, are a sufficient substitute for the Golan itself. Perhaps counter-intuitively, Israel calculates that it will become stronger without the Golan. The advanced weapons the U.S. will furnish Israel to "guarantee the peace"--Tomahawk missiles, Apache helicopters and missile defense systems--will endow it with a deterrent and second strike capability unparalleled in the Middle East...
...truly lies behind Israel's desire to seek peace now is nothing less than a revolution in its security thinking. Israel's real enemy is no longer on its border, but on its horizon. Today, the nuclear capability emanating from Iran constitutes the most serious threat to Israeli security. Countering the Iranian threat requires that the Israel Defense Force (IDF) transform its conventional military doctrine into one based on high-tech warfare. However, the IDF is constrained from doing so because its resources are spread thin coping with multiple threats. Currently, the IDF must plan contingencies for a conventional Syrian...