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Thursday, May 05, 2005
Further to those stories about Beirut dames dragging their Sri Lankan maids along to the recent opposition demonstrations to flag wave and chant for them – the manouchie man tells me that a friend of his witnessed one such team in action at yesterday’s rally in downtown Beirut calling for the release of Samir Geagea. And, sure enough, the maid was waving the flag, but her chant was slightly improvised – “madam want Samir out”.It must be the Sri Lankan/Lebanese equivalent of the Australian regulation that requires all political advertising to identify the name and address of the perpetrator - resulting in all such television and radio ads ending with a terse “written and authorized by…” voiceover.
11:00 am
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