 | | Doha ´city centre´ part of history |
 THE high sales pitch of the
shop-owners and the flurry of
activity among shoppers, trying
to drive a smart bargain at
Musheireb (popularly called
National), Souq Ahmed bin
Abdullah and the markets in the
lanes and bylanes
of the area
seen over the last
one week or so are
like the flicker of a lamp´s flame
before it dies out in a storm.
The traders are resorting to
distress clearance of their
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|  |  | | Europe´s Real Problems |
| WHEN the history of the 21st
century is written people
will ask why it was that
Europe was found wanting
during its most intractable
economic crisis. They will ask why
Europe slept as an undercapitalised
banking system floundered, unemployment
remained unacceptably high, and
the Continent´s growth and competitiveness
plummeted.
Worse still, if a reconstruction plan
does not come soon, Europe´s leaders
will be charged with "the decline of... |
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| |  | | NO, WE CAN´T?
OR WON´T? |
| IF you were shocked by Friday´s
job report, if you thought we
were doing well and were taken
aback by the bad news, you
haven´t been paying attention.
The fact is, the United States economy
has been stuck in a rut for a year
and a half.
Yet a destructive passivity has
overtaken our discourse. Turn on
your TV and you´ll see some self-satisfied
pundit declaring that nothing
much can be done about the economy´s
short... |
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Kuwait, S Korea share Asian schools bowling glory
TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK
DOHA KUWAIT and South Korea shared the glory at the 13th Asian Schools Tenpin Bowling Championship after Abdulla Ahmed and Song Yeon-Soo claimed victory in the Boy’s and Girl’s Masters finals, respectively.
According to reports coming from Bangkok, Ahmed of Kuwait A, who had ended the second block Masters finals in third place, advanced into the stepladder finals to meet No.
2 seed, Muhammad Aizudeen Mustaqim of Malaysia A in the first match.
There was nothing separating the duo after four frames until Abdulla rolled three strikes in-a-row from frame three and a double strike from frame seven while his opponent had two open frames in the seven and nine.
The Kuwaiti took the match, 224-174 to challenge top seed, Shaun Lau Jia Rong of Singapore A in the two-game total final match.
Abdulla edged the Singapore youth, 202-192 to go into the second match with a 10 pin margin.
Abdulla struck a double in frames five and six while the Singaporean had four strikes in-a-row from frame eight and a 7 pin to end the second match with 225 forcing Abdulla having to roll a turkey in order to win.
The Kuwaiti youngster kept his cool delivering the goods needed to finish the game with 219.
His two game total of 421 was enoguh to clinch victory for the gold medal over Shaun’s 417 by 4 pins.
The champion had won two bronze medals in the Singles and All Events.
In the girl’s division, top seed Song Yeon-Soo defeated teammate and Singles gold medallist, Kim Jin-Sun, 421-383 in an all-Korea finals to win her first medal of the championship.
Song had won all the 16 matches contested over two blocks of eight games to advance into the stepladder finals as top seed.
Kim had earlier eliminated third seed and Singles gold medalist, Marie Alexis Sy of Philippines A, 205-171 in the first match.
Winning the gold and silver in the Masters gave Korea A the overall champion title with 2 gold and 1 silver medal.
Although Singapore A had also won 2 gold and 1 silver medal, they had to settle for second as they did not field a complete team of a minimum of 4 boys and 4 girls.
Singapore A did emerge as overall boys champion after they won gold in the Singles and Doubles and a silver in the Masters.
Korea A also emerged as overall girls champion with gold in the Singles and Masters and a silver in Masters as well.
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