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...charge of the Milwaukee Archdiocese since 2002, has long been considered among the most likable and loquacious senior American prelates. In the late 1990s, while serving as rector of the Pontifical North American College, the largest English-speaking seminary in Rome, he was a major man about town and go-to guy for U.S. journalists covering the Vatican, at ease sharing a beer or providing simple words to explain complicated Church doctrine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York's New Archbishop: A Winning Papal P.R. Move | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...Seven years later, Washington celebrated the opening of the John F. Kennedy Center, a white marble extravaganza designed by Edward Durrell Stone, the era's go-to guy for Establishment swank. Within a single vast building, it held three theaters and a grand foyer that's one of the biggest rooms in the world. But it was also cut off from the city behind a rat's nest of roads and highways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lincoln Center's New Come-Hither Design | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

...collegiate goalies, and proved that he belongs in the Harvard net. “I think Ryan did a great job,” junior Alex Biega said. “He proved to the rest of the nation that he has the ability to be the go-to guy for the team.” With his performance over the weekend—which included a .922 save percentage—one could assume that Carroll has always belonged in the top goalie spot. But Carroll began this season just like last, as the backup. In his freshman year...

Author: By Alex Sopko, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Carroll Makes the Most of Opportunity | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

...John Michael Hayes, 89, batted out radio crime shows before becoming Alfred Hitchcock's go-to screenwriter in the mid-50s, penning Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, The Trouble With Harry and The Man Who Knew Too Much. An Oscar nomination for Peyton Place launched Hayes as the favored writer of elevated sleaze: Butterfield 8, The Carpetbaggers and the Carroll Baker Harlow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richard Corliss's 2008 Entertainment Death Reel | 1/10/2009 | See Source »

...Neill was viewed as one of the most powerful politicians in Palm Beach County. She served as the county's Republican Party chair earlier this decade, and offered her office space in the county's governmental center to GOP attorneys during the Bush-Gore recount. She was a go-to fundraiser for nonprofits and political campaigns, and a mother hen to the affluent cities on the southeast coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palm Beach: The New Capital of Florida Corruption | 1/10/2009 | See Source »

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