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...Nesson's speech was characterized by an anecdotal account of one of his first experiences with the court system (as a young man, he appealed a ruling for a traffic violation), a concluding allegory about a wise old man and a bird ("the bird is in your hands," he told the jury), and a portion during which he intended to have jurors listen to a song (quashed by Gertner in the interests of time...
Keli Goff is an author, a political commentator and a regular contributor to the Huffington Post. She is a featured essayist in The Speech: Race and Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" (Bloomsbury, August...
...West Berlin. As the bands played, the East Berlin crowds chanted "Gorby, Gorby" and "Down with the Wall," until they were silenced by East German security forces who beat them with batons and made scores of arrests. A short time later, U.S. President Ronald Reagan gave his now famous speech at the Brandenburg Gate, calling on Gorbachev to "tear down this wall." (See the top 10 Michael Jackson moments...
...Prime Minister Gordon Brown, whose Labour Party faces a general election in the coming year against a Conservative opposition bolstered by public discontent over the Iraq war, has indicated that his government will search for a diplomatic solution to the conflict. At a speech at NATO headquarters in Brussels on July 27, Foreign Secretary David Milliband urged military commanders to open negotiations with midlevel Taliban leaders in order "to separate hard-line ideologues who are essentially irreconcilable and violent from those who can be drawn into a domestic political process." (Watch a TIME video with Gordon Brown...
...security of the alliance. Britain has the highest number of troops in Afghanistan behind the U.S.; while other European countries have sent troops only for nation-building exercises in stable parts of the country, the Brits (along with the Canadians) have taken heavy casualties. In his first speech as the new head of the alliance on Monday, Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen reiterated that NATO's priority must be the war in Afghanistan. "NATO is a strong military alliance, and we need a strong military effort in Afghanistan," he said. (See TIME's photos of the new U.S. Marine offensive...