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Doesn't seem to do much journalism anymore, mostly comment in the Indy and speaking tours. His contact book must still be insanely big, though.

Indeed, I still think his book, 'Pity the Nation', is one of the finest observations of the Lebanese civil war ever written.

Sadly, plenty of them are probably dead.

Best thing I remember him writing was from Beruit when he was on The Times. They printed his cable verbatim, including the commentary he was giving about ducking under the desk as shells flew by.

Yeah it was certainly dramatic and caught my imagination.