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...visit to the United States - which includes a White House visit, an address at the United Nations and a prayer at Ground Zero - may be the best opportunity for the theologian pontiff to define his leadership in international relations. "The Pope per se is simply the custodian of the Catholic tradition," says a senior Vatican official. "He can become a global leader if he manages to embody a battle of ideals that is present in the world...
Europe likes to think of itself as the custodian of the world's environment, and its policies to cut back strongly on its own harmful emissions have set a powerful example in the fight against climate change...
...charges of corruption, which she contends were politically motivated. "She has disgraced the Bhutto name," says clan patriarch Mumtaz Ali Bhutto, who considers her self-imposed exile in London and Dubai an attempt to escape her sins. "The stigma will stay forever." Not to worry, insists the tomb's custodian, Muhammad Issa. "We will whitewash the walls before she returns," he says...
...shabby interior of chipped marble floors and peeling concrete pillars. The walls bear spray-painted messages in support of her estranged brother, Murtaza Bhutto, murdered by unknown assailants 11 years ago. Not that she'll see these slogans questioning her credentials to lead Pakistan. Says the tomb's custodian, Muhammad Issa, "We will whitewash the walls before she returns...
...Marcel Duchamp to Samuel Beckett, who urged her to focus on the contemporary. It was back in New York, where she and then husband Max Ernst had decamped to escape the war, that she hit the jackpot. One of the young artists she set her sights on was a custodian and art preparator at her uncle's then-budding museum. She put him on a monthly stipend and encouraged him to explore his uniquely abstract style. "Jackson Pollock was Peggy's greatest achievement," Rylands says. "He was to Peggy what Kandinsky was to Solomon. She did everything...