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...never know what to expect when Karl Rove calls. But when the phone rang for Mary Ann Glendon last summer, Rove, still President Bush's top adviser at the time, had a holy mission for her: Ambassador to the Vatican. Now, having just landed in Rome, she has one of the biggest tasks of that mission already waiting on her desk: coordinating Benedict XVI's first papal visit next month to the United States. "It's a great moment to arrive here," Glendon says of her assignment to the Holy See. "[The trip] will be interesting... Be prepared...
...Vatican might seem to require a major leap of faith. But Glendon, considered one of the top American Catholic thinkers of her generation, has long been at home along the banks of both the Charles and Tiber rivers. Officially installed on Feb. 29 as the new American Ambassador to the Holy See, she is a longtime Harvard Law professor, author and international expert on human rights and legal theory. But her resume also includes stints as a visiting lecturer at the Gregorian Pontifical University in Rome and three years as the President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences...
...Stein's excellent article brought back memories of another down-to-earth movie star. In the '60s I attended a meeting with colleagues in Hollywood, and we were in the Ambassador Hotel the night Barbra Streisand had her opening at the Cocoanut Grove. After the show there were stars galore in a hospitality room. Two associates and I decided to crash the party, which was easy. To make a long story short, I spotted Henry Fonda all by himself and said, "Hello, Mr. Fonda." His first words were "Call me Hank." I mentioned I grew up in his home state...
Over 150 visitors attended the event, including Elena Poptodorova, the Bulgarian ambassador to the United States. Most visitors, however, had little affiliation with the country...
...open up a diplomatic process with Iran. I remember criticizing the Bush Administration for outsourcing our policy toward Iran to the Europeans. But it has been unfortunate that the Bush Administration has refused under the circumstances to permit any kind of diplomatic engagement. We had something going with our ambassador in Afghanistan early on, a meeting with the ambassador from Iran to Afghanistan, which stopped abruptly after the Axis of Evil speech. We began to have contact between our ambassador to Iraq and their ambassador to Iraq, but those never really expanded to cover the range of issues that...