 |  | | Celebrating A Killing |  MAN is shot in the head, and
joyous celebrations break
out 7,000 miles A away.
Although Americans are in
full agreement that the
demise of Osama bin Laden is a good
thing, many are disturbed by the revelry.
We should seek justice, not
vengeance, they urge. Doesn´t this lower
us to "their" level? Didn´t the Rev Dr
Martin Luther King Jr say, "I will
mourn the loss of thousands of precious
lives, but I will not rejoice in the death
of one, not even an enemy"? (No, he did
not, but the Twitter users who popularised
that misattributed quotation last
week found it inspiring nonetheless.)
Why are so many Americans... |
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THE DEED | | WATCHING the talk
shows, thinking about
the tumultuous last
American decade,
reflecting on the death
of Osama bin Laden, I feel grateful
for many things but not least this:
the invisibility of the heroes.
For once it is the deed itself that
speaks. The deed, so often lost in
this age of celebrities and reality
shows and Donald Trump´s monumental
ego, stands unadorned. In
its daring, its professionalism and
its effectiveness, the deed is there,
making words look cheap.
The deed was that of the 79 US
commandos, who have met with
their commander-in-chief,
President Obama, and who are
known to one another, but are
unknown to us. For secrecy is their
covenant.
Dispatched from Jalalabad,
Afghanistan... |
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for 15% of
Boeing´s
backlog BOEING´S orders from its customers in the Middle East account for 15 percent of its order backlog by value. The total order backlog is valued at $236 billion. Qatar Airways is the second largest buyer of Boeing in the Middle East region. The Qatari...
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| | ArcelorMittal´s profits
rebound to $1 billion |  TOP global steelmaker ArcelorMittal said on Wednesday its first quarter net profit rebounded to $1.07 billion (744 million euros) following a setback at the end of last year due to exceptional items. The company, by far the biggest steelmaker by volume, said it expected profitability to improve further in the second quarter due to increased seasonal factors and increased underlying demand. The group reported a loss for the last quarter of 2010 because of costs arising from the sale of its stainless steel division. In the comparable first quarter of last year it made a net profit of $640 million. "As anticipated, we have seen a stronger start to the year... |
| | Hotel occupancy rate in Qatar to stay
high even after 2022 WC:Khaddouri |
 HOTEL occupancy in Qatar
will continue to be at substantial
levels even after the 2022
World Cup is over as the
country is fast emerging as a
sports, education and tourism
hub, a senior hotelier
has said.
"With massive investments
being made in education,
sports and tourism, there will
be considerable influx of people
to Qatar beyond the football
world cup to provide the
hotel industry with sufficient
business," Chief Operating
Officer of Rotana Hotel,
Omer Khaddouri told Qatar
Tribune at a function on
Wednesday.
Asked if the number of
hotels coming up in the country
for the 2022 world cup
will affect the demand and
supply equation after the
mega event. |
| | RETURN TO SPENDING
AND THE FRONT ROWS |  Business travelers are back, and the airlines are eager to court them again. Whether they are small-business owners, sales representatives or corporate executives, business travelers these days are more often found at the front of the plane than at the back, where cuts in travel budgets confined them during the recession. The restrictive company policies that banned business-class travel, limited lodging to three-star hotels and replaced threeday sales conferences in Las Vegas with virtual meetings via conference calls have all but disappeared. The years of chasing costs have given way to a rebound in travel as the economy picks up. The airlines have... |
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