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...Sunday the war came to Tyre; most of the city's population, upon hearing the news that Hizballah rockets had struck the Israeli port city of Haifa, 18 miles south of the border, sought refuge in the basements of apartment blocks. "It was terrifying," says Mohammed Awayni, 23. "We spent all day in the basement. We could hear the explosions shaking the buildings...
...resistance fighters. This time it's almost all women and children. We haven't seen one resistance man," he adds, referring to Hizballah guerrillas. He said that the hospital has received 196 casualties, including 25 dead. "We don't need democracy," he says. "We just want to live." The basement of the hospital is packed with casualties and their anxious relatives who have fled their homes from neighboring villages to sleep on thin mattresses in the corridors...
...batteries. But it's hard to escape the sense of dread that looms over the country. "Twenty years of reconstruction are being destroyed in a few days," the Tourism Minister, Joseph Sarkis, moaned to me from his nearly abandoned ministry. The owner of a subterranean nightclub called the Basement is trying to rally his patrons with a new slogan: "It's safer underground." Even in Beirut, that may not be enough to keep the party going...
...Lobsters won the match 24-18, bringing their record to 1-1. Since Sunday’s victory, they have gone on to lose their next two matches, bringing their record to 1-3 and earning them a spot in the basement of the league’s Eastern Conference...
...Translation: The Senate bill has to come a lot closer to what we want. Meanwhile, in the basement of the Capitol, Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana spoke with TIME.com before holding the latest in a series of meetings with Senate hard-liner Jon Kyl of Arizona, a kindred spirit to the House Republicans...