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Some Lebanese smile and cynically repeat: It may be the end of the world! It’s the last summer for Lebanon!
They say that as they review the successive and accumulated crises: Their country has been without a president since May 25, in light of the seemingly immense difficulty of electing a new one. Some predict that the Baabda Palace, the presidential residence on a plateau east of Beirut, will remain vacant and its lights turned off for many months.
