[Deanesmay-announce] New post at Dean's World

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Hello,
	There is a new post on Dean's World.  You can read it at:

http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1168292587.shtml

It begins:

	 When people heard that I was planning to travel to
	Beirut, their reaction was the same - they said
	"You're going - where??"    Hard Rock Cafe, Beirut 
	Despite March 14th's outpouring of pro-democracy
	fervor, despite the images of more than a million
	Lebanese (in a nation of 4 million) championing
	freedom, despite the very real similarities between
	Beirut, Italy and Paris, "Beirut", the word and the
	city, have become synonymous with urban warfare,
	snipers and car bombs. In the movies, whenever an
	American wanders into Beirut, he winds up dumped...