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...Scrambled Eggs, four nerdy-cool local guys in tight jeans and high-tops who strangle their guitars and have onstage seizures as if this were Manchester in the '80s or Seattle in the '90s. "I was locked in a cellar but it became my shelter," sang frontman Charbel Haber on "See You in Beirut Whatever Happens," one of the band's original songs that convincingly channels the post-punk era of Sonic Youth and the Cure, but which seems somehow appropriate in the current Beirut setting: a subterranean nightclub called Basement, which coined its slogan "It's Safer Underground" during...
...foreign visitor might find it strange to find a rock subculture in the Middle East, but Haber, a former Catholic schoolboy, sees a similarity between rock's golden age during the 1950s and 1960s in America, and the Middle East today - sexually repressed conservative societies dominated by religion and an ideological cold war. Interviewed last week at the band's studio in Gemmayze, a formerly working-class neighborhood of garages and crumbling townhouses that's become ground zero for Beirut's young and restless, Haber places the Beirut rock scene in a wider Mideast cultural context...
Lynn Becker Haber TRUMBULL, CONN...
...Haber, now retired, had always been disorganized. His life was full of clutter. He had trouble managing everyday tasks and meeting deadlines. "I would ask myself, 'Am I lazy?'" he says. Then a diagnostic workup revealed that Haber has ADD (also known as ADHD, or attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder). Now he's treating it. He takes the stimulant Ritalin to help him focus, and he sometimes consults with an ADD coach, who helps him keep the clutter...
...possible for a 63-year-old man with a Ph.D. to have attention-deficit disorder? That was the question English professor Richard Haber asked himself six years ago as he sat in his doctor's waiting room and flipped through a book on ADD, as the ailment is known. Haber, who taught at Western New England College in Springfield, Mass., thought he might learn something about his students' problems. Instead, he says, "I recognized myself...