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...prepared to be awedThe First Lady, accompanied by her daughter Miss Barbara Bush, met His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI in the ultimate inner sanctum - the ornate, sun-splashed Papal Library in the Apostolic Palace, just off St. Peter's Square. The half-hour audience, all in the library, was so quick it was a blur for both participants and onlookers. It began with a greeting for the cameras among the Pope, Mrs. Bush, Miss Bush and Francis Rooney, the seventh U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See. The Pope, in a characteristic gesture, held both hands out and said, in English...
...Broadway success of the superingratiating Spamalot proves it: in a generation, any humor can go from naughty to nostalgic. This 16-discathon is a refresher course in the Brit sextet's cleansing silliness. All 45 of the original half-hour BBC shows are here, plus the 1982 Live at the Hollywood Bowl (a greatest-hits show, but ruder) and a 1998 reunion of the five surviving members, recollecting the canon: Silly Walks, Dead Parrot, Cheese Shop, Spanish Inquisition, etc. All together, Pythonites: Wink-wink nudge-nudge, say no more...
RETIRED. TED KOPPEL, 65, as the veteran anchor of ABC's Nightline, three years after the network's embarrassingly public attempt to bring in David Letterman to take over his time slot; in Washington. Since 1980, when the half-hour show was launched, Koppel has made Nightline a lively, aggressive examination of the news. Down-playing his exit, he ended his last broadcast by asking viewers to give his successors a chance or else, he said with a jab at ABC, "I promise you the network will just put another comedy show in this time slot. Then...
...RETIRED. TED KOPPEL, 65, as the veteran anchor of ABC's Nightline, three years after the network's embarrassingly public and unsuccessful effort to secretly replace him with David Letterman; in Washington, D.C. Since its inception 26 years ago, Koppel made the half-hour show a lively, aggressive examination of the day's news. Downplaying his exit, he ended his last broadcast by asking viewers to give his successors a chance. Or else, he said with a jab at ABC, "I promise the network will just put another comedy show in this time slot. Then you'll be sorry...
...you’re going to get at the doors,” he says.—Staff writer William L. Jusino can be reached at jusino@fas.harvard.edu.KENNETH E. REEVES ’72: A Man About TownAlthough Reeves’ cell phone vibrates six times during his live half-hour interview on Cambridge Community Television Friday afternoon, the eight-time City Councillor and nine-time campaign veteran never once looks down at it. He just keeps on talking, unfazed.Reeves, decked out in a dark suit and yellow-and-blue striped tie, is chatting with CCTV host Laura Montgomery about...