A memorable lead:
Watching bombs from the bar -- a holiday in Beirut
By Paul Hughes
BEIRUT, July 18 (Reuters) - You know your holiday has taken a turn for the worse when the hotel slips a note under your door with directions to the bomb shelter.
Administration officials may have had a similar feeling when they saw that The Associated Press had busted out THIS rubric:
BC-Iraq-Out of Control,1059 Sectarian killings surge despite national unity government


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