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...fellow and adjunct lecturer at the Center for Business and Government and Center for Public Leadership at KSG—offered few specifics about his plans for the NYSE, but he did say that he was not taken aback by the board’s decision to elect him as the new chairman...
...compass, however subtly. That said, the Italian members of the Sacred College had established, before the ascension of the Polish Karol Cardinal Wojtyla in 1978, a 456-year tradition of selecting from among themselves. Though the percentage of electors from Italy has plummeted from the 33% who helped elect John XXIII in 1958 to 17% today, the 20 Italians who can cast ballots remain powerful, and the next Bishop of Rome could be Italian...
...easily a record for a religious leader and reflective of his influence on the world. For so many in the world, he is the only Pope they have known. To read TIME's reporting about him over the years, and to follow the funeral and the conclave that will elect the 265th Pontiff, please be sure and visit TIME.com...
...list extends from here, and as Wojtyla's extraordinary election more than a quarter-century ago proved, there is absolutely no predicting what will occur when the Cardinals gather in the Sistine Chapel beneath the Michelangelo frescoes and devoutly swear to "preserve a scrupulous secrecy regarding everything that relates in any way to the election of the Roman Pontiff." Having pledged, they will get down to their task, filling in their ballots under the words "I elect as Supreme Pontiff." Outside, St. Peter's Square will be filled with pilgrims, gazing up at the chimney, awaiting the puff of white...
...Joshua Copel, president-elect of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, can come up with only one other example of medical imaging equipment being used in a nonmedical setting--and that fad became extinct decades ago: "They no longer have those X-ray machines in shoe stores so you can look at the bones in your feet as much as you want...