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...plan seems to be working. In the 2004 Athens Games, a Chinese women's pair brought home a surprise gold. Two years later, at the Australian Open, Yan and Zheng claimed the country's first Grand Slam title. Then came Wimbledon, when the diminutive Zheng made it to the semi-finals as a wildcard before succumbing to the younger Williams sister. Zheng, a native of Sichuan province, which was rocked by the May earthquake, donated her Wimbledon prize money to the reconstruction effort...
...helm of the assistance center is Emelda Johnson, who spent four years as the deputy assistant secretary at the Housing and Urban Development Department in Washington, D.C. The city hired her in September, and, in a matter of months, she was crafting the plan for the foreclosure assistance center, an idea that she said has no precedent. Johnson contacted lenders, non-profits, mortgage entities, "anyone who touched the whole process of lending." But as the program was being formulated, many of those groups backed out. Still, partners came on board. At first, $1 million was cobbled together from a developer...
...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. He is grateful for at least one thing. "Without [the foreclosure assistance center], we wouldn't have made it this far," he says...
...When NATO holds its last summit of the Bush presidency in December, the symbolic language may remain soothingly supportive of membership for Georgia, but don't expect to see it granted a Membership Action Plan. Indeed, the events of the past week have called into question the very purpose of NATO and its relationship with Russia...
...boycotting the 2014 Winter Olympics. (Thursday's announcement of a deal between the U.S. and Poland to station missile interceptors on Russia's doorstep over increasingly bellicose objections from Moscow may have been timed to signal resolve in the face of Russian aggression, but that plan was in the works long before the Georgia showdown and is unlikely to have any effect on the Georgia situation...