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...When the G.O.P. crushed former minority leader Tom Daschle's bid for re-election, the Republicans thought they had broken the back of the Democratic resistance. But as Klein pointed out, the soft-spoken and creatively stubborn Reid has marshaled his troops much as Robert E. Lee did and is winning on the battlegrounds of his choosing. It remains to be seen whether, like Lee, Reid will eventually fall or Americans will realize that control of all three branches of government by a single party leads to extremism. Del Hindle High Ridge, Missouri...
Friday, April 8, 9pm, Vatican City Seeking Clues in a Funeral Oration The funeral required some nimble footwork from journalists. Many of us wanted to take in the spectacle of millions turning out to bid the Pope farewell, but we also wanted to get a close look at the homily delivered by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger - which would have been hard to do with the echoing sound system out in St. Peter's Square. As the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Ratzinger is widely expected to play a pivotal role in the coming conclave to choose a successor to John...
Doutre-Roussel succeeds in her attempt to penetrate Valrhona’s closely-guarded headquarters, but she fails in her later mission. As the chocolate buyer at the London department store Fortnum & Mason, she undertakes a quixotic bid to introduce the British to fine chocolate. But she quits in frustration at her customers’ persistent desire to buy violet creams...
...longtime photographer of Pope John Paul II, Gianni Giansanti was just 22 when he took his first shot of the just elected and virtually unknown Karol Wojtyla as he emerged above St. Peter's Square from the last conclave which ended on Oct. 16, 1978. Having just bid farewell to the photogenic figure who helped launch his career, Giansanti, now 48, recalls with a lump in his throat that it was John Paul himself who assured him that his own Vatican career was really just beginning...
Herrmann’s only lapse came in the top of the sixth, when he walked Ry Kagan on four straight pitches to open the frame and end his bid for a perfect game...