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It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, (protecting its sanity), covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But, it is never gone.  ~ Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

Friday, 26 March, 20105:00 pmto7:00 pm L’Orient-Le Jour & Le Commerce du Levant
organisent un débat
“Les jeunes, l’emploi et l’émigration”

Intervenants:
Boutros Harb, ministre du Travail
Sélim el-Sayegh, ministre des Affaires sociales
Patrick Laurent, chef de la délégation de la Commission Européenne
Modérateur: Mahmoud Harb, L’Orient-Le Jour
Le débat aura lieu au BIEL le vendredi 26 mars à 17h
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Lebanese like to dine late. Very late. So late in fact that is has become difficult to invite Lebanese and non-Lebanese to my house for a dinner at the same time. You can tell Americans or Dutch with a straight face that they are expected at 6:30 or 7, and they’ll be there. Tell that to a Lebanese. “7.30! Why so early? No way man. Why not 8:30?” and you’re lucky if they then show up at 9. Dinner won’t be on the table until 10:00, because we’re very busy discussing politics. By that time, your European dinner guests are emaciated. Or wasted, because they’ve been drinking wine since 7. Or annoyed, since they’ve got to go to work the next day. Well, so do Lebanese, I just don’t know how they do it; late dinners and early workdays.

Attention aux oreilles, la vidéo est bien bruyante. Hier comme prévu, à 18h02, l'ABC d'Achrafieh a accueilli une nouvelle édition de ces Flash'mobs version "freeze". J'adôôôôre...

Axis of Evil are going to be in Kuwait for the “So you think you can laugh” comedy show that will be taking place at AUK on March 29 @ 7:00 PM.
The performers are: Sugar Sammy, Dean Edwards, Maz Jobrani and Ahmed Ahmed
Tickets are sold at AUK
For more info you can call 9999-1008
Limited Capacity.
Regular tickets are 20 KWD and VIP are 40 KWD

The Boston Globe as usual have a great display of photographs, this time the subject is record setters. The one pictured above had the following caption:
Egyptian Mohammed Ali Zinhom, 25, attempts a new Guinness World Record for doing push ups on the 2 fingers of his right hand only, in front of the historical site of the Giza Pyramids, Egypt, Monday, March 8, 2010. Zinhom recorded 46 push ups in 49 seconds. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
Here is a link to all the photos and the records. [Link]

This is what happens when a truck tries to ram though a military grade concrete barrier. [YouTube]

Illustrating "simply with the help of the plain old fashioned mighty pen tool and a mouse" says Said Swayssi.

Posted by Fahad AlYehya | Core Fitness – Kuwait
It’s almost summer time and all the gyms around Kuwait are packed! People have locations to travel too, beaches to swim in and jet skis to ride, but you got to look good doing it. What’s the sure-fire, shortcut approach and rapidly fast solution to all this? A truckload of performance enhancers, dietary supplements and A LOT of chest and bicep exercises! That was the norm back in my university days, but people now demand abs too; but no legs, definitely no legs. They are evil and such a pain in the butt when exercised.

Pain d'Or Burger Buns - or when the ludicrous obsession of the Lebanese with superlatives goes wrong 

OK, so let’s assume there is an event you really want to see and a week before its launch, its unexplainable canceled. Do you:
A) Send the organizers a letter complaining and try to find something else to do on that day.
or
B) Gather a mob through Facebook to meet at a store sponsoring the event and trash it.
Well, guess which option was chosen  in Australia:

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(This is the first in a series of posts about ‘unknown Dutch treasures’ – themselves usually well-known, but not the fact that they originated here, in this tiny country. Enjoy!)

I made a ‘citizenship kit’ for Walid a while ago, to give him some background to life in Holland. (And also so I wouldn’t have to explain cultural references over and over again.) It contained, among other things, a list of songs and movies by Dutch artists that were popular when I grew up.
And what would you know? Some of those were the same songs he grew up with. He just never knew they were Dutch. Now I wouldn’t say they are the greatest legacy of the Dutch people for the rest of the world, but I bet it made a lot of people happy.
Do you remember this one?

A la lecture du communiqué du ministère de la Santé qui a appelé hier « les parents des victimes du crash de l'Ethiopian Airlines à se rendre à l'hôpital universitaire de Beyrouth à partir du lundi 22 mars pour retirer le certificat de décès de leurs proches », je m'associe à la double peine des familles et amis des victimes du crash de l'avion.
Doublement : une fois pour la perte de l'être cher. Une fois pour le manque de transparence des autorités de notre pays.

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