Polish farmers, who before accession were tearing their shirts and warning that the evil Germans and French would buy up Polish land for nothing, are emerging as the biggest beneficiaries of the EU.
There was nonetheless a historical irony in watching Ukrainians tearing down Lenin's statues as a sign of their will to break with Soviet domination and assert their national sovereignty.
Moments later, his team-mate Alessio Cerci struck the winner, sparking such bedlam at the Stadio Olimpico that the team's goalkeeping coach, Beppe Zinetti, wound up tearing an Achilles tendon.
Below, you might feel like tearing your hair out.
Even before news of Cantor's departure leaked, the battle to succeed him was under way, laying bare the deep fissures tearing the GOP apart.
"That was really tearing up the [former NSW premier] Neville Wran playbook of how to get re-elected … starting a fight with the media in the six months leading up to an election," he said.
The years after the cold war and the tearing down of of "this wall" were the chance for we musos to play our part in confirming the cultural liberation of eastern Europe.
It's always "pick up" - there's less a sense of unusual tearing injury and more one of everyday peskiness.
Environmentalists are concerned that ships navigating reef passageways – many of which are narrower than the English Channel – will run aground, as a Chinese vessel did in 2010, tearing a two-mile gash into the coral and spilling several tonnes of oil.
"[It] would come tearing out of the man's flesh with its gaping mouth, grasping and with an explosion of teeth … it's pure Bacon".
At the sold-out Guardian Live event for 2,000 Guardian Members on 6 October in Westminster, Owen Jones asked Klein why she believes climate change is a wake-up call for civilisation, why it's now about changing the world and not just light bulbs and how tearing up the "free-market playbook" may be the answer.
