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Even by her own standards, the black-tie gala that Houston socialite Becca Cason Thrash organized in Paris on June 10 was exceptional. The 272 guests, who paid up to $10,000 each to attend, included a smattering of European royalty, Bianca Jagger, Wall Street grandees Wilbur Ross and Stephen Schwarzman and the cream of Houston high society. Cason Thrash flew her Los Angeles decorator in and says she was so nervous about the arrangements that "by 6 p.m., I was looking for a cyanide capsule." This wasn't any old fund raiser: it was held for the Louvre...
...great successes of the post-1945 world - a unique geopolitical experiment that has spread peace and prosperity across a continent that, within living memory, had little of either. And yet when asked to endorse its leaders' plans for the future of the Union, European voters have a habit of being ornery. The Irish followed where the Dutch and French led in 2005, rejecting in their own referendums the proposed European constitution. The Irish no, in other words, was one of those moments that showed the fault lines in Europe's union, between young and old, élites and ordinary folk...
...didn't work. All the cheery T shirts in the world and the backing of Ireland's major political parties couldn't win the day. Irish voters were told that Lisbon would mean their sons would be conscripted into a European army, that abortion would be legalized and that there were plans to implant microchips in Irish children. Connellan met voters convinced that Brussels would impose a one-child policy. And more potent even than the scare stories, says Connellan, was the confusion. Irish voters - many of whom cheerfully professed to being staunchly pro-European - simply didn't know what...
...whom hadn't been around for the Dutch and French votes in 2005 - were indignant that Brussels' industry went unrecognized: "I see my boss, every day - you can't believe how hard she works!" says Cécile Astuguevieille, a French law student interning with a member of the European parliament. "National governments don't relay our work," agrees her friend Antoine Quentin, an MEP's assistant...
...faith-based parties banned by the courts, only to reemerge in a new guise on the back of a solid base of popular support. Unlike its predecessors, the AKP has steered clear of inflammatory Islamist rhetoric, pursued aggressively liberal economic policies and advocated for Turkey's joining the European Union...