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Although he shares the same title as the chief U.S. diplomat, the Vatican Secretary of State is more like a Prime Minister, responsible not only for foreign policy but also for overseeing church headquarters at the Roman Curia, being the Vatican link to Catholic organizations and officials around the world, and even stepping in for the Pope if he falls ill or is unavailable. While Pope John Paul II's constant travels kept him somewhat separated from the workings of the Vatican bureaucracy, Benedict and Bertone are instead expected to work hand in hand on all matters, foreign and domestic...
...agreeable enough film, of course. But did he really believe he was better as the urbane diplomat than he was as the playboy in comically desperate pursuit of marital reconciliation in The Awful Truth? Or as the absentminded paleontologist in Bringing Up Baby? And what about scheming Walter Burns in His Girl Friday, one of the funniest misanthropes ever recorded by the camera? For that matter, what about Gunga Din, The Philadelphia Story and Only Angels Have Wings? Or the unforgettable work for Hitchcock?Suspicion, Notorious and, possibly best of all, North by Northwest...
...moment there seemed to be a sigh of relief. The choice of Frank Carlucci, an experienced and capable diplomat and Government official, to head the National Security Council received widespread bipartisan plaudits. And by calling for a special prosecutor to look at all aspects of the affair, the Administration seemed to be signaling that it was eager to avoid any appearance of a cover...
...Islamic state. Cynical observers see a more venal struggle-over who gets to control the country's coffers for the next few years. "[A lot of politicians] cast themselves in these mantles of competing nationalisms, but the bottom line is they're a bunch of crooks," says the Western diplomat. Reinforcing that impression, Bangladesh has had the unhappy distinction over the past five years of being ranked worst or near worst on Berlin-based Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index. (As for the years the country was not the most corrupt, Bangladeshis joke that officials must have bribed their...
...know they will say no, but we don't know how far they're willing to go", a Belgrade-based Western diplomat told TIME. "Will they recall the ambassadors to Western countries? Cut the commerce? So far they haven't given us a clue...