When we met last May in Milan, she was towing a veritable footlocker that bumped through the hotel lobby on little plastic wheels.
Meanwhile, the Croat-Bosniak federation is teetering close to bankruptcy, with vast sums going to so-called war veterans, who constitute a powerful lobby.Little will now be done in Bosnia until the party congress of the leading Bosniak party in May.
This stimulating experience made me wonder why CuisinArt's Santorini restaurant is placed off the lobby, offering little visual charm except the cobalt-blue containers of bougainvillea surrounding the pool.
The living church is constantly frustrated by the severe restrictions to worship and welcome imposed by church buildings conceived in a bygone age, and by a heritage lobby with little understanding of what a church is actually for.
The small roof deck offers a chance to hear the city noise you've been missing; the lobby is little more than a corridor; and the restaurant, which features sustainably produced local food, is unremarkable in light of the culinary delights a block in any direction.
The group's lobbying attracted little public attention in Albany this year, and the measure was overwhelmingly approved in both houses in the final moments of the legislative session.
Powerful farming lobbies have little interest in changing the status quo.Aquifers, like fish stocks, are most at risk when they cross national borders, making property rights weaker.
Arizona's transformation, and the recent lifting of a ban on switchblades, stilettos, dirks and daggers in New Hampshire, has given new life to the knife rights lobby, the little-known cousin of the more politically potent gun rights movement.
Although that is true to some extent, health-care politics is also driven by competing lobbies with little interest in comprehensive solutions.The Democrats, newly victorious, complain that Mr Bush and the Republicans care only about the profits of insurers and drugs companies.
