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...time we were in a bind. Financially, we just couldn't see ourselves making the monthly payment and paying all our bills. They really saved the day for us," Michael Webb says. One of his daughters even received an eviction notice from her apartment on the University of Central Florida campus because her parents couldn't help. Still, one travail has followed another as the economy declines. Just last week, Michael Webb lost his job as an executive chef. He and his wife have a plan to start a catering business, and Webb thinks things will turn around...
...outpost of L'Auberge de L'Ile, Ansanay-Alex's two-Michelin-star place on L'Ile Barbe in Lyon. Trivia collectors will be delighted to know that L'Ile Barbe is one of those wacky microstates, where eccentric residents - fired-up by some long-simmering grievance with the central government - declare independence and start printing their own stamps and passports. In the case of L'Ile Barbe, the "break" from France happened in 1977, 14 years after the islet was declared, in a move hugely unpopular with locals, a district of Lyon. Ansanay-Alex's father...
...respect Ukraine's territorial integrity. Russian leaders have also remarked that Crimea, a part of Ukraine, should once again be joined to Russia. Similarly, Russian pressure on Moldova led to the effective partition of that small former Soviet republic. Moscow is also continuing to try to economically isolate central Asian neighbors like Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. And the Baltic nations of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have been the object of various threats from Russia, including economic sanctions and disruptive cyberwarfare...
...there are questions of geostrategy. An independent Georgia is critical to the international flow of oil. A pipeline for crude oil now runs from Baku in Azerbaijan, on the Caspian Sea, through Georgia to the Turkish Mediterranean coast. The link provides the West access to the energy resources of central Asia. If that access is cut, the Western world will lose an important opportunity to diversify its sources of energy...
Since talks began on July 22, however, there has been little word on any progress. The central sticking point is how to divide power between Mugabe and Tsvangirai. After a week, the talks hit their first roadblock when the M.D.C. rejected as "insulting" an initial offer by Mugabe's regime to make Tsvangirai one of three vice presidents. [Zimbabwe's other two vice presidents are ranking members of the ruling Zimbabwean African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) party, and perform a largely ceremonial role.] Since then, there has been little authoritative word - and much wild speculation...