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...would become pope benedict XVI began the year behind a desk. Granted, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger was no ordinary shuffler of Vatican papers; indeed, he had long been celebrated by Church conservatives as the architect of Pope John Paul II's doctrinal policy and vilified by progressives as the panzerkardinal who defended Catholic orthodoxy with the impenetrability of a tank. Yet Ratzinger's quotidian reality was essentially that of an exalted Catholic Church bureaucrat. Working the day shift at Church headquarters for 23 years meant studying and safeguarding the Gospels, not preaching it. On March 31, Ratzinger was in his Vatican...
...march into his office and begin debating him on the topic of the intern's choice, to keep him mentally fit for encounters with constituents back home. I remember walking into his office on a day when he wasn't there and seeing a legal pad on his desk listing more than 50 issues, with a grade beside each one indicating how well he believed he'd mastered it. Proxmire was, not surprisingly, a workaholic, and also a notorious tightwad. He worked seven days a week and was grumpy on holidays when Federal offices closed, and regularly reimbursed the Senate...
...structure the story. After editing, a slightly improved version emerges that still has to jump the hurdles of further inspection. While writers and editors sweat through words, designers and photographers unite to make the page look appealing, obsessing over spacing and lines. By the time the story reaches my desk, always later than I’d expect, it’s just a couple of flicks of the red pen, a couple of changes, and it’s ready for press...
Surrounded by 53 computer screens, more than 15 telephones, and dozens of notebooks stuffed with protocols, shift supervisor Kirk A. Wornum, 43, sits behind his desk at the City of Cambridge Emergency Communications Department, ready to handle any emergency...
Wornum’s desk is one of nine in the crowded room, each equipped with three phones, a switchboard laden with 84 black buttons, and four computer screens—some of which can graphically display the location of the 911 caller...