Casualities Lebanon

At precisely noon Monday, this city of 1.2 million came to a halt. Cars stopped in the road. People stood outside shuttered stores. Church bells rang. A nation that is hardly a nation felt a unity it has rarely known--Christian and Muslim alike shared grief and anger at the hostilities with Israel that have claimed about 150 lives in 12 days.

At precisely noon Monday, this city of 1.2 million came to a halt. Cars stopped in the road. People stood outside shuttered stores. Church bells rang. A nation that is hardly a nation felt a unity it has rarely known--Christian and Muslim alike shared grief and anger at the hostilities with Israel that have claimed about 150 lives in 12 days.