Beirut or Broadgate?
That’s according to telegraph.co.uk’s Jonathan Russell’s opinion on the state of crime in London:
An article in the greatly undervalued and generously over-punctuated Badge – billed as “the voice of the London cab driver’s club” – reports that traffic wardens, sorry civil enforcement officers, are now too scared [...]
Multiplying Diamonds
Something magical happens to diamonds soon after they arrive in Lebanon:
“85 percent of the diamonds arrive as industrial worth a couple dollars a carat, but some 250,000 more carats leave as gem-quality diamonds than arrive – worth 36 times their import value.”
That’s according to the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme, a non-legally binding process sanctioned by [...]
My Nationality Campaign Scores a Point
Great news for the My Nationality campaigners:
In a rare move Tuesday, a Mount Lebanon court granted Lebanese citizenship to the children of a Lebanese woman following the death of her non-Lebanese husband, giving hope to thousands of other families to follow suit.
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Judges John al-Azzi, Rana Habka and Lamis Kazma granted the children citizenship rights after [...]
“You would think, ‘Is this Beirut?’”
Beirut is being used as a defense strategy in the US:
Comparing the streets of New Bedford to Beirut, defense attorney Kevin Reddington said jurors should consider the city’s history of gang violence in weighing the fate of murder defendant David “Crunchy” DePina.
“It’s a case about what happens on the streets of New Bedford,” said Reddington, [...]
Sports: The Glory, The Fame, The Nationality
Interesting news from the Philippines concerning the International Basketball Federation Championships (2009 FIBA):
Don’t count Lebanon out among the teams to contend with in the coming 2009 FIBA-Asia men’s basketball championship in Tianjin, China.
The Lebanese national squad officially naturalized former NBA draftee Jackson Vroman and is expected to suit up for the team in the August [...]
