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Immediately after the election, Jeff Danziger, editorial cartoonist for The Christian Science Monitor, did a wonderful cartoon illustrating this process. A proported page from Danziger's "cartoon notebook," designed to demonstrate his attempt to work up a Clinton caricature, is a montage of a dozen different, dogged attempts to draw the president-elect. I have a copy of this cartoon (which was reprinted in The Boston Globe) taped to the wall next to my drawing board in the vain hope that it will provide me with a little help, a bit of direction for the next time I have...
...Thus the newly issued Universal Catechism "will be the signature that the Pope leaves behind him," says a ranking Vatican official. The 676-page summary of essential beliefs on doctrine and morals applies to all the world's 850 million Catholics. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the Vatican's uncompromising doctrinal monitor, led the six-year project. His staff went through nine drafts and fielded 24,000 proposals from bishops. The French edition, released last week, is already a brisk seller, and debates will well up as the document appears in other languages...
...partnerships can get off the ground, though, they must navigate the thicket of trade restrictions that still restrain international airline traffic. Many governments fear that foreign carriers are gaining too great an advantage in their markets, undermining local jobs and revenues. Says Edmund Greenslet, publisher of the Airline Monitor, a trade publication: "National feelings about airlines obviously trigger more passion than TVs and automobiles. Airlines are a highly symbolic way of establishing national identity in the world...
Even the Big Three U.S. airlines protesting the British Airways-USAir deal are making connections of their own. Delta has quietly aligned itself with Singapore Airlines and Swissair, each of which own 5% of the Atlanta carrier's stock. American has held talks with Canadian Airlines International. The Airline Monitor's Greenslet expects six or eight key global alliances to take shape before the end of the decade...
...fact, the University has had to establish a department just to monitor the use of the Harvard name and seal, which are copyrighted...