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...smiles. Sitting in his modest office, I offer some bland questions but he fires off detailed responses. We talk about everything, from the track's former incarnation as a "Japanese-style amusement park" to the eight miles of underground snow-melting steel pipe to the "Rhode Island baby-sand" surface installed for the dogs' safety. I ask him about the state's involvement and he explains it thoroughly, all the way down to the "piss-catchers," the state inspectors who perform the urine tests on the dogs...
...what's missing." Until Netanyahu chooses another way, no amount of U.S. mediation can move the peace process along. Perhaps, as a senior State Department aide says, "the prospect of international outrage and more, the chance that Israel's economy can be adversely impacted by his head-in-the-sand policies, will cause Netanyahu to see the light." But any learning curve will be steep...
...LINES IN THE SAND...
...beach volleyball. For one thing, he was always fully clothed. Also, had he been working on the Southern California beach where beach volleyball was presumably invented, he would have thought of some reason why volleyball couldn't be played. He would have said the posts made marks in the sand...
...then again, the dining halls aren't worth fighting too much. Two nights ago, the main course was some Chinese pork chop concoction. It looked like shake-'n-bake pork covered with sand. I'm not even Jewish, but I know that I'd go through any religion's hell for eating that sludge...