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...Geography of Bliss. Equal parts travel memoir, self-help screed and reportage, the book takes something everyone has wondered - Does where you live determine how happy you are? - and uses it to plumb the psyches of nations that are statistically the happiest places on earth: countries such as Iceland, Qatar and Switzerland that "possess, in spades ... money, pleasure, spirituality, family, and chocolate." In a year of traveling, Weiner visited not only well-adjusted locales, but also places where people say life is just so-so and one where the people are truly miserable, all the while asking himself...
...story "Fund To Spur Public Service" said that a donation received by the Kennedy School came from the foreign minister of Qatar. In fact, the gift, was from H.E. Sheikh Sultan bin Suhaim Al Thani, who established the fund in honor of his late father, Sheikh Suhaim bin Hamad Al Thani. The elder Al-Thani, not his son, served as foreign minister of Qatar...
...effort to escape the thrilling claustrophobia of the presidential campaign, I took a busman's holiday and spent Presidents' Day weekend at the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Doha. But there, too, our campaign was pretty much what everyone was talking about. "Excuse me, Mr. Joe," a confrere from Qatar asked, "what's a superdelegate?" An Iranian businessman told me that "Obamamania" was sweeping the America-loving young people of Tehran. And so I expected a fair amount of passion at the panel I'd been asked to moderate: three Muslims venting on what the Islamic world should expect from...
...Qatar, Peer will be one of the few players on the women's circuit who speaks some words of Arabic, which she studied briefly in school. Religious prejudices are never an issue for her; in previous years, she teamed up in doubles with Sania Mirza, a Muslim from India. There was little complaint in Israel, but in India, extremist Muslim clerics were outraged at Mirza...
...Peer says her most powerful weapon is that she's "strong, mentally." Most likely, it won't be the Arab spectators in Qatar who test her mettle but a formidable tennis rival, the glamorous Russian Maria Sharapova. When the two dueled recently in Israel, Peer whipped up the home crowd, which hooted and ridiculed the Russian's habit of grunting loudly when she slams the ball. Seething, Sharapova buckled down and demolished Peer, winning 6-1, 6-1. Peer was later scolded by Israeli sports officials for inciting the crowd against Sharapova. As she heads to Qatar, Peer may have...