Quote of the week
Posted by Sayamindu 1 year, 5 months ago
From this week’s community news:
Among them was the mayor of South Beirut, with whom I spoke. ‘The American government sends bombs to kill the innocent,’ he said, ‘and the American people send us computers for our children. We are very grateful to OLPC. This means opening up the world to our children.’
Also, in related news, Sugar is being translated into Aymara. If you can help in this effort, or for that matter, any of the translation efforts, you are more than welcome to jump in 
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Mayor of South Beirut? Huh? Beirut isn’t officially divided, there is only one mayor and he is for all of Beirut. What the article means to say is a representative of Hezbollah (who practically control south Beirut). It should be noted the OLPCs are being handed out to Palestinians children in refugee camps inside Lebanon, not Lebanese children.