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Casting the First Pineapple

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GEOFF GOODSON <Staff Writer> The enthusiasm has waned and the dinner-party has returned home, back to our cozy social circles and comfortable silences.  Yet, there is still fruit left on the table, which tends to ripen and rot when left uneaten.  I direct my article towards this degradation while, undeniably, admitting my own complicit role in its dissipating rot.  For, in a corner, just...

Geoff Goes to Jerusalem

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GEOFF GOODSON <Contributor> As I write this article I am in a shierut (shuttle), from the Ben Gurion airport in Tele Viv to Hebrew University’s Beit Maiserdorf faculty club, which will be our home for the next month.  The sparse palm trees and occasional bright flowers contrast against the ubiquitous side-reel running by my window.  Everywhere, box-like buildings seem to be made from the...

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