This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
NYTimes: Israel's Top Envoy: Lawyer Who Evokes Meir - 'Tzipi Livni, 47, is the first woman to serve as Israel's foreign minister since Golda Meir did so half a century ago. Some think she may be the first since Ms. Meir to be prime minister...'
