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This summer in Brussels - the closest thing there is to a capital of the E.U. - there is an almost palpable sense that the dream of an ever closer union between Europe's nations is a thing of the past. Ordinary Europeans are making it plain they believe there are limits on how far the process of integration should go. At the same time, there is a sense of bafflement that others do not share the same sense of idealism that many in Brussels insist motivates their work. News of the Irish no hit Brussels "like a bomb," says French stagiaire...
...choosing to vacation at home, Brown's in good company. His predecessor Tony Blair drew jeers from British newspapers for his lavish holidays abroad, but many British politicians are sticking closer to home this summer. Finance Minister Alistair Darling has chosen an island off Scotland's northwest coast for his vacation, while Conservative Party leader David Cameron has hit the beach in Cornwall, southwest England (though he is fitting in a second holiday in Turkey in a few weeks...
...past five years. But for a city with a median income less than $40,000, it was all a bit out of whack. Rosemond notes that before the bubble burst last year the average Miami Gardens home value was nearing $300,000 when it should have been closer to $200,000. As a result, the city and its minority residents have been a special target of what Williams calls "scoundrels and criminals dressed as mortgage brokers" duping low income or subprime buyers with risky mortgage products...
...convention floor, visitors got a chance to take a closer look at the Owl Ship that Snyder's crew built for the Vancouver production, which came outfitted with an 8-track player and coffeemaker...
...head in to tell Mohammed his father's car had broken down, he got back on the road to see what the problem was. Not far from the airport, Mohammed discovered his father's vehicle consumed by flames, with an American military convoy preventing him from getting any closer. "I was in agony trying to do something," he told TIME a week later. "Seeing my father burning in the vehicle, I fainted...