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Indeed they are, as are the people of Ain et Tine and other shell-shocked Christian towns that are not surrounded. But then so are the people of Aley and Ain Zhalta and other Druze towns, all prisoners of collective folk memories in which rights and wrongs are forever remembered. "We are the first people of Lebanon," says a Druze village elder, referring to his sect, which broke away from Islam in the 11th century (see box). "We cannot be ignored. We respect the rights of others, but they must respect our rights...
...metaphors of his folk-rock anthems. Consider this recent observation: "Roots, man-check up on Elijah the prophet. He could make it rain. Isaiah the prophet, even Jeremiah, see if their brethren didn't want to bust their brains for telling it right like it is ... I ain't looking for roots in synagogues with six-pointed Egyptian stars, but, you know, it's sleepy time down south...
Last week--4-4. Bucknell isn't in New York Season 8-4 Two out of three ain't bad. Ask Meatloaf...
Yogi Berra might say it ain't over till it's over, but this football game was over a little earlier than that...
...them," promises John Sexton. Still, for a group of highly trained, largely untested fighters, life in Beirut has an air of maddening unreality. Says Randy Lunt: "This situation is kind of messed up. If we go back and tell people what happened here, they ain't going to believe it. So we ain't going to tell them." -By Kenneth W. Banta...