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With all the continuing tragedies of Beirut, the people always managed to go on. Looking away from the world of politics for a moment, TIME Beirut Correspondent John Borrell reported on how the citizens were faring...
...Business as usual," said the sign in Arabic on what remained of a grocery store's door in West Beirut a day after a bomb blast had blown out its windows and reduced much of its merchandise to rubble. Picking his way through cans of peas coated with the contents of broken catsup bottles, the shopkeeper shrugged stoically at the mess...
Suspending belief is the best way a Beirut resident can stay sane. Peace has broken out so many times, only to be shattered again, that few dared hope that the latest cease-fire would be anything more than a brief respite. "If you had told us ten years ago that we could expect a decade of war, we would have thrown up our hands," says Jana Tamer, publisher of a Middle East newsletter. "Tell us now that it will go on for another ten years, and I guess we would just shrug. We are numb...
...conflicts of the past decade overlap: Christian against Muslim, Christian against Christian, Muslim against Muslim, Syrian against Israeli, sometimes one neighborhood block against the next. Memories blur. Was that building ravaged during February's battle for West Beirut or during one of last summer's ceasefires...
Over the past decade, 250,000 residents have been made homeless, and thousands have died. Some 10,000 children are orphans, many with no last names, only painful memories. "That's Ahmed," says a teacher, pointing to a quiet four-year-old in West Beirut's Islamic Orphanage. "He lost his parents in the Sabra and Shatila massacre two years ago. He's retarded, but we do not know if he was born that way or suffered some unfathomable shock during the killings." Ahmed sits, uncomprehending, his large brown eyes staring up at the visitors...