Hass believes a lot of people already compose poetry in their heads without realizing it.
The only problem is that the order Hass reported on is 41 years old.
Baldwin spends a few minutes needling Arline and Arthur Hass on the merits of the petition.
Most avocados sold in the U.S. are the dark, bumpy-skinned Hass variety grown in California or Mexico.
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There are more than 400 varieties of avocado, but Hass has become the most popular in the United States.
Farmers found the Hass easier to cultivate, and its higher oil content and good nutty flavor appealed to consumers.
Hass's participation in the pro-Hamas propaganda trip is a bit surprising.
Also on Monday, Haaretz published an editorial based on Hass's stories.
In the end, as the militant Israeli pro-Palestinian activist Amira Hass chronicled in Haaretz last week, all but 100 of them were barred from travelling to Gaza.
In recent years it has adopted a new strategy, cutting prices for caskets and urns but concentrating on selling bundles of services, says David Hass, a managing director.
The truth is that Hass and her fellow demonstrators were willing to be used as media props by Hamas precisely because it isn't the Palestinians' welfare that concerns them.
Named after postal worker Rudolph Hass, who purchased the seedling in 1926 from a California farmer, the distinctive purplish-black fruit has a thicker skin and smaller body than other varieties.
On Sunday, Haaretz's Amira Hass reported that in January, the IDF published a new military order that paves the way for the mass expulsion of illegal aliens from Judea and Samaria.
In a follow-up on Monday, Hass reported that 10 self-described human rights organizations (all funded by the New Israel Fund) sent a joint letter to Defense Minister Ehud Barak asking him to rescind the order.
It's good for you, says Robert Hass, Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997, two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner in 1984 of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.
She wrote that on the bus to Gaza, still smarting from the rough treatment the group received from the Egyptian authorities, Hass "made me realize why I came in the first place: to break the siege!"
At the time, Hass appealed to the Israeli military - which she has spent the better part of her career bashing - and asked to be allowed to enter Israel from Gaza, after sailing illegally to Gaza from Cyprus on a ferry chartered by the pro-Hamas Free Gaza outfit.
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