"In Search of Beirut"

"BEIRUT — I’m going to be doing a daily diary of sorts of TIME Magazine this week. Basically B2I is getting transferred there for a little while, but you’ll still be able to see the dispatches here. Here’s the first one:

This war has turned Beirut inside out. The city’s usually snarled traffic is almost gone and the blaring noise of car horns is absent. Conversely, parks that are rarely used are now full of people — those who have fled the bombings in the south, east, north, and, well, pretty much everywhere in Lebanon.

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