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Lebanon Prepares Mass Graves in Tyre

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By Madeleine Brand,

Ivan Watson

Published August 2, 2006 at 1:00 PM EDT

A Lebanese army soldier marks a name on a wooden coffin before it is carried to a refrigerated truck and taken to a hospital in Tyre, Lebanon, Aug. 2, 2006.

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Madeleine Brand is the host of NPRs newest and fastest-growing daily show, Day to Day. She conducts interviews with newsmakers (Iraqi politicians, US senators), entertainment figures (Bernardo Bertolluci, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Gervais), and the everyday people affected by the news (an autoworker laid off at GM, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq).

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Ivan Watson is currently based in Istanbul, Turkey. Following the 9-11 terrorist attacks, he has served as one of NPR's foreign "firemen," shuttling to and from hotspots around the Middle East and Central Asia.

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