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...Some might consider this bad taste in a city where massive car bombs have recently killed Lebanon's former Prime Minister and a prominent journalist. Yet the war is hot these days. A nightclub called B-018, tel: (961-1) 580 018, has seats fashioned like coffins that fold down to form a dance floor. T shirts for tourists boast, BEIRUT: IT'S A BLAST...
...ceiling is lined with barbed wire. The music is not the techno pop blasting all night from most DJs' turntables across Beirut, but the nationalist crooning of wartime stars like Fayrouz. Some might consider this bad taste in a city where massive bombs continue to go off, recently killing Lebanon's former Prime Minister and a prominent journalist. Yet the war is hot these days. A nightclub called B-018, tel: (961-1) 580 018, has seats fashioned like coffins that fold down to form a dance floor. T shirts for tourists boast, beirut: it's a blast. But nothing...
...speech, George W. Bush blamed Syria for not doing enough to stop terrorists from entering Iraq and for "what they did in Lebanon"--an unsubtle reference to the Administration's belief that Damascus had a hand in the February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. The Administration's Syria strategy, says a U.S. official, is to get "the international community to speak with one voice," perhaps via U.N. Security Council sanctions if a U.N. investigation implicates Assad's regime in Hariri's murder. When the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, warned Syria last week that "our patience...
Levenson, 95, has no time to worry. He is busy with his current project, a three-panel portrayal of the Civil War at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital in Lebanon, N.H., where since 1990 he has painted 17 historical murals. (Among his other subjects: the Shaker sect, Native Americans and a New England fair.) He is also writing a book on the history of drawing, teaching female inmates at a Vermont state prison how to make a landscape mural and starting sketches for a portrait commission. Oh, and this fall he's off on a Fulbright fellowship to Colombia...
...Nonetheless, many see the election, after the fall of Saddam in 2003 and the Cedar Revolution against Syrian domination of Lebanon this year, as a further crumbling of the edifice that has guarded authoritarian regimes in the Arab world for half a century. They hope that Egyptian elections in November will produce a more representative parliament, and that voters will have a real choice in the next presidential contest, in 2011. After surveying the overflow crowd of 5,000 people at a rally in the northern city of El Mahla El Kobra, Maram Mazen, 19, a law student volunteering with...