Saturday, July 22, 2006

The right stuff ...

If you want to get out of a war zone you need money and status. From our pal Scout Prime:

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Among those enrolled in the summer Arabic program at the American University of Beirut, students told ABC News, those from Harvard, Yale and Princeton were in the first group evacuated - by high-end private security firms. Students from other American schools were left behind, waiting it out for days while the U.S. embassy formulated its plan.

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And if you're a Lebanese-American and speak accented English, you can bet your ass will be the last one on the chopper.

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