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...Malley, 42, has mastered that kind of retail politicking as a lifelong political buff. His parents met while working at the Democratic National Committee, and he was doing cheers for Hubert Humphrey by age 3. Gary Hart bought him his first legal beer at 21. O'Malley grew up in Washington's tony Maryland suburbs but fell hard for blue-collar Baltimore while attending the University of Maryland's law school there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wonk 'n' Roller | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...goes to the issue of the importance of the lifelong appointee. Ever since our country was founded, we've had the ability to block nominations of the President that were out of the mainstream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Barbara Boxer | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

...Little did I realize just how thoroughly life would, in fact, change for us lifelong Red Sox fans. We were newly fashionable, for one thing-people wrote books about us, people made movies about us, people wanted to talk to us. We had lots and lots of brand new friends. I learned, not long after Doug Mientkiewicz caught the toss from Keith Foulke to finish off the Cards-a ball that Doug would spend much of the off-season trying to keep as his own, a ball now in the possession of the Red Sox (and Doug is, via trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Our Red Sox,' Still? | 4/16/2005 | See Source »

...Vatican II. At the Second Vatican Council (1961-65), Wojtyla contributed to several key documents, most notably on the church in the modern world, at one point causing an observer to make note of his "magnetic power" and "prophetic strength." But Wojtyla declined to embrace change uncritically, prefiguring a lifelong love-hate relationship with the modern era in a speech describing it as "new in good [and] new in evil." After the council, he was elected to an important position in the Bishops' Synod and was later regarded as a protégé of Pope Paul VI. Yet after Paul died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defender of the Faith | 4/3/2005 | See Source »

...potential. But he had maintained a contemplative practice. (Rocco Buttiglione, a friend and an author, once described the Pontiff's reverie: "The faith is like a strike of lightning, illuminating everything.") His devotion to the Virgin Mary, to whom his personal motto--Totus tuus (All yours)--referred, was lifelong, and he was known to prostrate himself before her statues. Since the shooting occurred on the anniversary of the 1917 apparition of the Virgin near Fatima in Portugal, he was convinced he owed his life to her. He made a pilgrimage of thanks to Fatima, and the near fatal bullet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defender of the Faith | 4/3/2005 | See Source »

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