There is a long obituary of Michael DeBakey in the New York Times. It is very annoying how the Lebanese (and Arab) media are treating him as if he was a proud Arab or a proud Lebanese when the guy never cared about his ancestry and tried his best to distance himself from his background. And then the New York Times said: "He was born on Sept. 7, 1908, the oldest of five children of Lebanese-Christian immigrants who moved to the United States to escape religious intolerance in the Middle East." Oh, really? That was why Lebanese immigrated to the U.S.? Is that why people immigrate from the U.S.? And then: "Critics say Dr. DeBakey was eager to claim credit for innovations or exaggerate his role in making them, but since no biography of Dr. DeBakey or thorough analysis of his hundreds of scientific papers has been published, it will be left to medical historians to resolve such controversies." This will not make it into An-Nahar, nor this: "Before mellowing in his later years, he had a reputation for sometimes tyrannical behavior in firing assistants for making relatively minor errors like cutting a suture to the wrong length."