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...show Battlebots, and in doing so contributed to the rapid burnout of the sport. Snowboarders lost their counterculture mystique, and their boards are more plastered with corporate logos than your average NASCAR racer. And baseketball? Don’t even get us started. Beirut is facing the same fate. Lebanon is being slowly Westernized despite continuing political strife, and it’s character is gradually changing under the weight of French and American corporate interests. Stores from Starbucks to Zara cater to an increasingly Western-aligned upper 10 percent, while poorer Lebanese are largely excluded from the benefits...
...suicide or murder? And why? Syrian Interior Minister Ghazi Kenaan--who had been Syrian proconsul from 1982 to 2002 and "the real power in Lebanon," says former Lebanese President Amin Gemayel--was found shot in his Damascus office last week, less than two weeks before the expected release of a U.N. report on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. Syrian authorities swiftly declared Kenaan's death a suicide. Still, speculation swept Damascus that Kenaan may have killed himself because he feared that his government was setting him up in the murder of Hariri, with whom...
...travel to countries for which the State Department had stated that US citizens should “consider carefully the risks of travel” or “defer travel.” With this stringent policy in place, students could not study in countries such as Israel, Lebanon, Iran, and Kenya. The result was that students were prevented from traveling to some of the most interesting and educational places in the world simply because of a general, blanket warning. The old policy also ignored regional variations in safety within countries, causing blatant inconsistencies. Ironically, students at Yale?...
...previous restrictions, which aimed to deter student travel to Israel, Iran, Kenya, Lebanon, Colombia, and seven other countries with any State Department travel advisory, were put in place last fall...
That policy, which affected travel to Israel, Iran, Kenya, Lebanon, Nigeria, and seven other countries, was instituted last fall...