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...keep themselves out of the story, but sometimes the story gives you no choice. Michael went to Baghdad in 2003 to work on our Person of the Year package about the American soldier, where he joined writer Romesh Ratnesar, correspondent Brian Bennett and photographer Jim Nachtwey. Jim Kelly, my predecessor as managing editor, had asked for volunteers for the job and was pleased and relieved that a pro like Michael had signed up for duty. When a grenade landed in the back of his humvee on a routine patrol in Baghdad and Michael grabbed it and tried to throw...
...Bush has an odd job, where you're expected both to be the nation's best hostess and also to care about safe issues. She hasn't done something as dramatic as run for Senate, like her predecessor. But for a quiet librarian who told George W. Bush she would marry him only if she didn't have to give speeches, she is talking louder than she ever expected...
...predecessor said he is energized by her many ideas. “It’s the Higginbotham era,” Gates declared...
...Vatican insider, the Pope may very well have wanted to stir up the pot - and have it plenty warm just in time to deliver a more elaborate sermon on Islam and the West while he is visiting a nation with some 70 million Muslims. "It may be like his predecessor," says the Vatican source, referring to John Paul II's knack for staying relevant in world affairs. "He wants to create a positive tension. Then it becomes a political trip as well." At this point, though, the real political feat will be getting to Turkey in the first place...
...partners in the dialogue of cultures." Indeed, just last month, on the 20th anniversary of that first Assisi encounter, the Pope sent to the Bishop of Assisi a written message that heralded John Paul's promotion of peaceful dialogue among religions. If Benedict can acquire enough of his predecessor's political touch, the theologian's hard thinking may help the West begin the difficult conversation with its Islamic brothers--one that includes a clear definition of differences as well as a search for common ground--that is so badly needed...