quantumushroom's line is useful. It's what they tell the youngins nowadays, who can't be expected to look intelligently at Reagan's withdrawal from Beirut after the Marine barracks disaster.

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EnzoBlue- was the interpretor really intentionally bad? I hadn't heard that. Are you saying that the interpreted comment about homosexuals was incorrect?

Yes, this section was taken out of context - but damn, the implied meaning behind that statement should not be trivialized. Try this link on for size.

Bourdain and his crew for the show No Reservations arrived in Beirut two days before the July 2006 airstrikes began. The show that was planned to celebrate the food and culture of the city took a very different turn.

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As the R.E.G. Project and its predecessor make abundantly and soulfully cool and clear, the hippest and most creative chillout music isn't limited to the confines of European clubs. The first R.E.G. Project -- three Beirut DJs named Ralph Khoury, Elie Barbar, and Guy Manoukian crafting their own interpretations of Arabic classics -- made a global smash on Claude Challe Presents: Near Eastern Lounge in 2003.

Bringing an Arabic twist to the Buddha Bar/Café del Mar scene, the trio draws from heavy house and lounge music in a spectacularly funky and hypnotic fusion of East meets West.