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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ballot box, and when campaigning was mostly based on distinctly local, and sometimes trivial, issues. "European election campaigns are run on national agendas, and national governments use the E.U. as a scapegoat," says European Commission Vice President Margot Wallström. "If all the failures are the fault of Brussels and all the successes are because of national government, then it becomes very difficult to mobilize voters 
 for these elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment: European Parliamentary Elections | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

...Mousavi seemed less pretentious. On the day before the election, Nahid and I interviewed him in a building he had designed, part of an art school and gallery complex in central Tehran. He seemed an exceedingly gentle man, soft-spoken to a fault - whisper-spoken, in fact. His most emphatic moment came when we asked about Ahmadinejad's attack on his wife. "I think he went beyond our societal norms, and that is why he created a current against himself," Mousavi said. "In our country, they don't insult a man's wife [to] his face. It is also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joe Klein: What I Saw at the Revolution | 6/18/2009 | See Source »

...than that. Maybe knowing what circumstances made the authors of Scripture open-minded can help make modern-day believers open-minded. Maybe the hidden code in the Bible and the Koran, the code that links Scriptural content to context, could even help mend the most dangerous of intra-Abrahamic fault lines, the one between Muslims and Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decoding God's Changing Moods | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

...Future Fault Lines But Sotomayor's unique background and views about race and gender are likely to become more important over time. In coming years, there may well be challenges to the death penalty, for example, on the grounds that it is imposed in a racially discriminatory way. The court rejected that claim in 1987, but Sotomayor might be sympathetic to it. In 1981, as a member of the board of directors of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, she was part of a committee that recommended that the fund oppose the reinstatement of the death penalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Sonia Sotomayor Really Stands on Race | 6/11/2009 | See Source »

...Commission Vice President Margot Wallström admits that the turnout reflects badly on the E.U.'s public image. "It doesn't help that European election campaigns are run on national agendas, and national governments use the E.U. as a scapegoat," she says. "If all the failures are the fault of Brussels and all the successes are because of national government, then it becomes very difficult to mobilize voters for these elections." (See pictures of polarizing politicians at LIFE.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe's Voters Reward the Right | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

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