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...Connellan, the promise of a Europe freed from the ways of the past has long been an ideal. "I've seen the damage nationalism can do," she says. "Coming from Ireland, I was intrigued by the European Union as something built out of a peace process." In Dublin, she stood on street corners with fellow campaigners - "in really attractive yellow T shirts" - trying to convince the public that the Lisbon treaty would make the European Union simpler, more transparent and more democratic...
...That's the first thing Dick Heller told me as we stood outside the Supreme Court building on the morning of June 26, waiting for the decision in a landmark Second Amendment case. Heller, who wore a Supreme Court tie and a blue baseball cap with a miniature silver pistol on it, looked like just another enthusiast as he handed out newsletters. But as he lectured me and my friends on the history of the case, we responded with rapt attention rather than casual interest. Heller, a security guard from Washington D.C., was the eponymous plaintiff in the case, District...
...wondered whether, all across the country, children were whipping out the brushes and paint while parents stood resignedly by, remembering the pictures he showed of his own bedroom growing up, covered in doodles and math problems and rocket ships, and honoring his injunction...
...from one another," Obama said to cheers from a crowd that Berlin police estimated at more than 200,000, which had gathered in the city's central park, the Tiergarten, and stretched toward the Brandenburg Gate, about a mile away, where Reagan had spoken. From where the presidential candidate stood, atop a stage onto which he had taken a long walk alone, he could see tens of thousands of people crowded onto the Seventeenth of June Boulevard, named for a 1953 uprising against the East German government...
...director of Backlash, a group campaigning against legislation that would outlaw BDSM-themed pornography in England and Wales next January, says Mosley has helped BDSM practitioners realize they have a community and that they shouldn't remain silent when others deem their practices sick and unusual. "Max Mosley has stood up for himself," she told TIME. "And that's inspired other people in the community to talk out loud about their experiences...