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Are you sure it's the same girl in the Economist picture? Where are her flags? I think the Yahoo girl and the Newsweek girl are definitely the same. (Although on closer examination the dimples are little different. So who knows?) It probably says more about lonely photographers than it does about Lebanon.

But I do have a couple other questions in addition to yours. 1) What's with all the costume changes? 2) What's the story with the dudes who keeping lifing her up? Is offering to hoist someone on to your shoulders at a democratic rally a good way to meet chicks?

If you click through to the larger images you can see that it's definitely the same girl on both covers -- though it does look like a different guy between NW and Yahoo. As for the costume flag changes, these shots are taken on at least two different days. It's possible that she put on a sweat shirt between NW and Yahoo, or it's three days. They have been out almost every night after all, and this chick is obvs a fashion plate.

BTW, there's no photo credit for the Economist pic, but the NW and Yahoo ones were taken by two different people.

Is offering to hoist someone on to your shoulders at a democratic rally a good way to meet chicks?

Guys, too, evidently- check to the left in the Economist cover.

I've seen all these photos and many more like them at work. The Yahoo girl is different. In the NW photo (taken March 4th) Girl A is wearing what I think is a school uniform, in other shots in the series she is surrounded by some friends with the same shirt. Couldn't quite decypher the logo to tell you what high school she goes to but I can tell you she is Christian. The Betty Boop (Economist) picture is from March 1st. Yahoo girl is from March 6, the man she's sitting on is from Moby Grape.

Basically the story, as told by photojournalists, is that a lot of people are in the streets in Beirut. And a lot of them are foxes. Which is a good tack to take because we love foxes. While about half of all the pics I've seen are of out and out foxes there is another group of veiled women, a much smaller set of photos but even then they went for the foxiest veiled women they could find.

Naturally the real story is Bush's illegitimate attempt to take credit for this and to exploit it to smack down Syria. But, man, she is foxy.

You and me were thinking alike Daniel. My take was a little different, but democracy in Lebanon sure smells like ... (sweet). We need a Playboy shoot; 2005 Beirut Babes or something. Hell, I'd settle for Maxim shoot. :-))

TG -- so you're confirming that the NW and Econ pics are the same girl? What about the Getty/Weekly Standard shots?

I can only confirm insofaras she has the same face. The Weakly Standard (zing!) girl is new to me. Getty manages AFP images in North America and both Economist/NW and Yahoo girl are on Getty's site. Along with dozens of other not-quite-as-foxy-but-still-attractive Lebanese chicks. There's a stable of about four Getty/AFP photographers responsible for the vast majority of those pictures.

Oh, and I should point out that while Yahoo bought the AP/Kenneth Frayer pic there is an almost identical one from Marco di Lauro/Getty.

This girl is gonna become like that guy that the NYT kept "quoting" at every single event in NYC for a while, right? Just cuter.

Is the US gov bankrolling these protests too?

I hate to bring a note of seriousness to these discussions, but before these photographs I hadn't properly appreciated that Syria was oppressing a country with chicks quite this hot in it. I thought it was just, you know, the usual.

"Naturally the real story is Bush's illegitimate attempt to take credit for this and to exploit it to smack down Syria."

Yeah, 'cause up until now, Bush's foreign policy has completely ignored the Middle East.

Oh, wait...

"It's strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq," explains Walid Jumblatt. "I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world." Jumblatt says this spark of democratic revolt is spreading. "The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it."

Poor Walid. Sometimes he says things. Anyway, he's new to the whole anti-Syria thing so it's not surprising he's confused.

At any rate, the current pro-Syria Hezbollah demos are segregated by gender so however many times larger they are they are distinctly less hot/media-relevant.

Poor TG. Sometimes he says things. Anyway, he's long into the whole anti-Bush thing so it's not surprising he's in denial.

I will agree on this, though: The pro-Syrian side is distinctly less hot.

finally some real news!

Although I'm truly a "Johnny come lately" to this discussion, you must all realize that because TG Gibbon uses initials in his name, he is an authority. On everything.

He is witty, intelligent (and not just that pseudo college intelligent by using a coded terminology and vocabulary gleamed from having to produce academic papers in a discourse community)and the nicest Leftist you could ever meet. If he had his way, he'd nationalize all industry in the nation, but he'd do it with a wink and smile.

Lucky for him and his writing endeavors, it is very fashionable for the indocrin--*cough!*--educated to combine academic homilies with pop culture. The juxtaposition of academic airs with references to Stormtroopers and the like is intoxicating and never gets old!

Nothing more beautiful than a girl from Lebanon. Go to this site www.lebanese-girls.com. Where can u can find just regular pictures of lebanese woman, just beautiful lebanese girls

i want to say to all the dogs who are talking on the lebanese christian girls to look first at their sisters and mothers and see how many dicks they are eating everyday.look, there is no beautiful and nice and polite girls than the lebanese christian girls, look at urself u muslims, dont look from the outside that ur wearing echarps on the faces of ur women and every one eats a whole dick every second.Shame on u dogs.i wish war will be back in lebanon to kill anyone who is not christian lebanese.i am waiting for this moment, be aware...

fuck syria and all the arabs because they are jeaulous from the lebanese, this is the truth. we are not arabs , we r phenecians.we resemble to the italian people the most, since we have our own style.

You all lebanese what american did to you. they did trap you guys pulling out syrian troops from lebanon. americans made you suffer. you guys did belive in americans????
they did they same to the Iraq on 1990. YOU PEOPLE ARE FOOL IDIOTS SUPPORTING AMERICANS!!!!!!

guys not all the muslims are that kind of crap dont be so hurry when you give any opinion... that way you'll be like those assholes am muslim but i dont have that kind of mind and there is alot of me ..
am muslim and i do think that all the people on the earth got bitches whatever they are muslims or christians or anything ..
other point : no matter what we are but we speak arabic and our fathers speak arabic so we are Arabs .... but the americans ARE CRAP ....
SOME ASSES FROM EVERY WHERE!!

I VERY SURE THAT ALL THE FUKIN' LABANESE ARE FUCKED IN THEIR MINDS AND ARE ALL JUST BUNCH OF MORANS THAT'S WHY SYRIA WENT TO HELP THEM COVER THEIR FUKIN' ASS FROM THE ISRAELIES, BUT THEY SAID NO THAT'S OKAY WE'RE HAVING FUN GETTING FUCKED BY ISRAEL .....SO BASIKLY WHO FUKIN' CARES ABOUT SUCH GOOFS AS THE LABANESE PEOPLE, THEIR FUCKIN' GUYS ARE ALL GAYS AND THEIR FUCKIN' GIRLS ARE ALL BITCHES AND HOOKERS SO FUCK THEM ALL AND HERE IS A BIG HUGE AND LONG FUCK FROM ALL THE WORLD TO LEBONAN "FUCK LEBANON"

whats wrong with all you fuck-wits i cant believe your sitting around talking so much shit about some girl that dont look a day over the age of 15. you cunts are all sad, by the way lebanon is a great country and its people are just as great, muslims, christions, druze whatever. the problem in lebanon is all the fucken crap around it eg:wherever al nasri is from. by the way nasri suck my cock.