True, he sometimes writes from abroad, where he travels to teach, attend festivals and, more bizarrely, to spend the night in a 133cm wide house in Warsaw, the city where his mother was born (a Polish architect, for reasons not entirely clear, built this house with Keret in mind, its proportions intended to reflect those of his stories).
In the Bush years, the rallying cry when operations like Marja began was "clear, build and hold".
At that time the White House declared that American troops should never "clear, build and hold" territory in Afghanistan that it could not soon "transfer" to Afghan control.
Mr Bush said the influx of more American troops, together with Iraqi forces, would be enough to "clear, build and hold" militant areas.
During the review of Afghanistan and Pakistan strategy, Mr. Gates made the argument, according to one participant in the White House Situation Room discussions, that "in any particular location you should be able to clear, build, hold and transfer" to the Afghan forces within two years.
The moral of the tale seems clear: build your house from bog-standard bricks, little rich man, and no one – not even big, bad Justin Bieber – will huff and puff till they egg it down.
For cities such as Detroit and Christchurch, it may be easier to fly ahead when you're starting from the bottom, but the message of their success is clear – build it and they will come.
How can we be operating a clear, build-and-hold strategy that depends on us bringing good governance to Afghans when the head of the government is so duplicitous?
Overall, the message is clear: BUILD US SOME APPS.
However, talk to a few of the thousands of developers who have flocked to build software for Apple's iPhone since last year and they'll say that Apple's instructions have always been very clear: Build your applications so that they're compatible with different screen resolutions and screen sizes.
Applying a mitochondrial targeting system we observed that targeting of Mito-GFP-N-WASP (Figure S4A) but not of GFP alone (data not shown) to mitochondria resulted in a clear build-up of F-actin on their surface (Figure S4A C).
