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We Mar 29 -

"BUSY, READING" -

*Oh, and just in case you are not in the know, the phrase slightly foxed is an antiquarian bookseller's term for a volume whose pages time has discoloured with brown spots.*

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Duly Noted:
A wonderful essay
about writer Stefan Zweig.

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*The Fadlallah Library, a two-story underground refuge in a part of Beirut that was once one of the Lebanese civil war's most dangerous, is on the front line in a struggle between East and West in which the front lines aren't always well defined.*

Anthony Shadid takes us
along with him for a day at
the library in south Beirut.

:: WaPo :: [Reg Rq'd]

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