In Washington not long ago, I heard him say disdainfully that the Palestinians could not be expected to rule themselves until their average annual income was ten thousand dollars a level reached in Israel forty yearsafter statehood.
Stand in the center of the rotunda and gaze up to the heavens through the eight-meter-high oculus at the center of the five-ton concrete dome --a stunning feat of ancient engineering, still intact after two thousandyears.
After 30 years of chopping onions and dismantling athousand chickens, my desire to understand what determines the alimentary equivalent of animal magnetism has yet to be fully answered.