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...limiting our free time to weekends, if that. Others are taking summer classes or preparing for graduate school entrance exams. A couple of weeks ago, Kevin actually tore his MCL in a street fight. And a few are physically absent, gone to Boston and England. We live in stark contrast to a time when anyone who dared go on vacation with their family—leaving the rest of the crew a man down—was publicly shamed...
...Wehbe, anxiously puffing on his pipe this morning as he stole glances at the screen, the contrast with the cosmopolitan city he left behind - and the thought that a return might be years away - was almost as demoralizing as the dire reports themselves. "If I have to stay here another week, I think I'm going to go crazy, that's the honest truth," Wehde moaned. "I need to stop thinking about this, but it's impossible. If there were any girls here, that would help. But there aren't any, not really. The ones there are, they're religious...
...Wehbe's hometown of Beirut was, in many ways, a kind of Middle Eastern New York: a vibrant cultural capital where an educated homegrown populace rubbed elbows with a parade of jet-setting foreigners. By contrast, the far more conservative Damascus gives off an Arab-flavored Soviet vibe, from the paranoid residents and omnipresent secret police to the 30-year-old junkers rolling along the streets. The flow of refugees from Beirut to Damascus, therefore, has made for an odd tableau: the normally dreary city is suddenly teeming with sharply dressed Lebanese and foreigners figuring out their next move...
...Indian living in England, I often wonder what the true cost of this economic boom is, especially the impact on Indian values and culture. Extended families are becoming fragmented, the young have little pride in their culture, and there is contempt for everything that is old. In contrast, a developed nation like England is steeped in tradition and still manages to hold on to its history. There was a time when people didn't have much money but life was less complicated, a time when what you had mattered more than what you didn't have. Hitesh Mathew Farnborough, England...
...people more real and easier to relate to. Much of anti-Israeli sentiment that I have heard in Syria before has been rhetorical, operating at the most general level with references to "the Zionist enemy" and "the Jews" and the sense of an eternal conflict. In Beirut, by contrast, I was frequently startled to hear everyone from cab drivers to political figures pragmatically compare Israel and Lebanon, wondering whose service sector would dominate once peace was made...