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...married and thus thought to be more stable but are wedded as well to their jobs--perhaps especially so, given the physical absence of a spouse. Sheila Gleason, 49, met Jay Banerjee, 56, while both worked as banking executives in Singapore. He soon relocated to Germany, then to Belgium. She eventually accepted a big job in London. "During the week we would work ridiculous hours, so it was easy to devote weekends to each other and nothing else," she says. Their commuting romance lasted 10 years, until they married in 2004 and moved together to New York City...
...Luxembourg is bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany...
...There's no Belgian nation. There's no Belgian anything.' FILIP DEWINTER, leader of the far-right Flemish nationalist Vlaams Belang party, on a plan to redivide Belgium into Dutch-speaking Flanders and French-speaking Wallonia, the two regions that united to form the country in 1830. Polls show as many as 40% of Belgians support the plan...
...crisis has stoked a media frenzy about whether divorce is in the air. Every day seems to bring a new twist on how Belgium could emulate Czechoslovakia's "velvet divorce," how the country's spoils might be divvied up, and even whether the split halves would be interested in joining with France or the Netherlands...
...Still, opinion polls appear to show Flemish faith in Belgium deteriorating. In March this year, a survey found only 11% of Flemish backed independence. But after the coalition spat and months of government paralysis, that figure had soared to 39% by August and now stands at 43%. Unless Belgium's political leaders can rekindle their faith in each other - and revive some deft coalition-building skills - the sentiment that Flanders is better off alone could become a fait accompli...