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...Israeli jet. The house, a typical simple Lebanese structure of reinforced cement and cinder blocks, had provided shelter for 10 days to 53 people, mainly women and small children, drawn from the extended Hashem and Shalhoub families. Only eight people survived the air strike, the rest buried beneath rubble and dirt, and suffocating to death, according to the Lebanese Red Cross, if they had survived the concussion of the double blast...
...extract the dead from inside the building. The victims had sheltered on the ground floor in the belief that a large pile of dirt and sand for construction would help protect them from air raids and shelling. But the earth had become their grave when they were buried beneath it by the force of the explosions. Two soldiers cautiously used spades to dig away the dirt. What was left of the building teetered heavily to one side and looked as if it would collapse at any moment...
Remele fingered a caramel cashmere coat and looked over at the footage of his February fashion show displayed on a television tucked beneath one of the club’s many Harvard seals...
With that, I left, down the hushed hallway, passed the gray men reading in overstuffed brown chairs, beneath the decapitated Bullwinkles, and beyond the humming restaurant into the blue, bright, white hot midtown Manhattan afternoon...
...film’s director and writer, Allen gets plenty of comedic mileage out of the strangers-in-a-strange-land shtick. However, a strong trepidation lies beneath the laughs. Excluding “Match Point,” “Scoop” is the only movie Allen has shot abroad in his thirty years of directing. Away from his New York stomping ground, he’s the new kid on the block, and he seems nervous about ending up as the crass “Ugly American” among an old-world city?...