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...when work could wait. She once instructed a distraught correspondent, who had both a deadline and a screaming infant to contend with, to give the child a bubble bath and come back to the story later. Penny showed us all how to balance professionalism with parenthood: her young son Joseph would dart around the office for a few hours every Saturday, invariably dressed as Spiderman...
...weeks since, his eventual successor Joseph Ratzinger has put on a tour de force that would impress Karol Wojtyla. Now that he is Pope Benedict XVI, it all seems pre-destined. But back when TIME reported a story in early January saying then Cardinal Ratzinger had reemerged as a leading frontrunner for the papacy, it was still difficult for many to imagine. One Vatican source told me this week that some colleagues were laughing about the piece when it came out, thinking Ratzinger was long since out of the running because he'd been branded as a doctrinal hardliner...
...Monday, April 18, 11 pm, Vatican City Ratzinger Under the Weather Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger has a cold. The sniffles and hoarse voice didn't stop the 78-year-old German from giving a forceful homily this morning in the final public mass before the 115 elector cardinals were locked off from the world. But when I heard him cough, when I saw him reach for a handkerchief from the sleeve of his scarlet vestments, I remembered a conversation I had last week with a Vatican insider convinced that Ratzinger was perfectly positioned to succeed John Paul II. "Anything can happen...
...book, “Omaha Blues,” Joseph Lelyveld ’58 purposefully resists the memoir category, instead subtitling the text a “memory loop.” The framework of this generic rechristening helps Lelyveld avoid some of memoir’s more obvious traps, self-indulgence among them, but it is fundamentally less than honest: “Omaha Blues” is still a memoir, and only a fair one at that...
...group’s founding in 1818, according to an account in B.H. Hall’s “A Collection of College Words and Customs.” Four members of the class of 1820—James F. Deering, Charles Butterfield, David P. Hall, and Joseph Palmer—were gathered in Hollis 13 when one suggested Deering should lambast his professors by delivering mock lectures in broken Latin. Hilarity ensued, and soon Deering suggested that the friends should invite others to join their revelry...