This Palestinian columnist says that the Lebanese people "are among the most intelligent in the world." How I hate such statements. What do they mean? Are there contests to measure the intelligence of people? If you ask me, the intelligence people is inversely proportionate to the amount of Hummus they consume. But seriously: aside from the weekly "discoveries" of cure for cancer that I read about in An-Nahar almost weekly, and aside from the various saints who still drip potato juice from their pictures in churches across the country, what are the signs of this intelligence?