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...expectations for this year close to zero. Spain has stopped growing. The U.K. is teetering on the edge of recession. And Germany, Europe's biggest economy, is finally showing signs of a marked deterioration. "It's hard to find a country that's keeping its head above water," says Véronique Riches-Flores, chief European economist at French bank Société Générale. Business leaders ranging from Sir Stuart Rose at British retailer Marks & Spencer to Renault's CEO Carlos Ghosn are sounding the alarm. At Burberry, the luxury-goods firm, CEO Angela Ahrendts...
...Chicago in the 1950s and '60s, Catholics ran the city's Democratic political machine. The New Deal had cemented their loyalty to the party, but those ties began to fray in the late '60s and early '70s as many Catholics felt alienated by everything from the Roe v. Wade decision to urban busing initiatives. Kmiec was part of the wave of Reagan Democrats who were drawn to the Republican President's policies and vision...
...decision in the Lawrence v. Texas case overturned convictions against two Houston men, whom police had arrested after busting into their home and finding them engaged in sex. And for the first time in their lives, thousands of gay men and women who lived in states where sodomy had been illegal were free to be gay without being criminals. Gay rights groups held spontaneous celebrations in dozens of U.S. cities...
...cases citing Lawrence have been decided in favor of gay-rights plaintiffs. Florida's ban on adoption by gay couples, for instance, has stood. But the impact of Lawrence v. Texas will likely only grow, say the lawyers involved in the arguments five years ago. "What Lawrence really means is that it is no longer enough to simply disapprove of conduct for the majority to make it a crime," says Paul Smith, the attorney who had argued before the court urging it to strike down the sodomy statutes...
Still, in the ideologically charged cases that ended the term, Justice Kennedy's influence seemed to persist. Says Lee Epstein, constitutional law professor at Northwestern School of Law: "If you look at the cases he was always there." First, Kennedy penned the opinion in Boumediene v. Bush, which many believe was the most significant decision legally this term because the court declared the unconstitutionality of President Bush and Congress' scheme for handling Guantanamo Bay prisoners during a time of heightened national security concerns. ("It was a reasonably big slam," says Epstein.) Kennedy also authored the child rape case banning...