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...that anyone is campaigning for the job--at least not openly. Running for Pope is a peculiar affair, mostly because one is not supposed to do it. In 1996, two years after he broke his leg and set in motion what some observers see as a quiet struggle to succeed him, John Paul II, like Paul VI before him, explicitly forbade the Cardinals to so much as chat about the matter of the next Pontiff. Still, in the media, candidates cropped up, and lately the speculation has grown intense, fueled by John Paul's declining health--at almost...
...American approach may succeed, largely because the Americans have now come around to what most Arab governments have been saying for some years - that comprehensive sanctions are hurting ordinary Iraqis but are not helping overthrow Saddam, and that they're giving him ammunition for his propaganda war. The position that economic sanctions that hurt the people rather than the regime should be lifted will be a point of consensus between mainstream Arab opinion and the U.S. But a crucial test remains to what extent Syria and Jordan will continue to tolerate smuggling, because right now Arab economies are hurting...
Wolin, Brooks and others emphasize that to build resilience in a child does not require the molding of a superkid. What's needed is to find one or two things--what Brooks calls "islands of competence"--at which the child can succeed and thus derive a measure of self-confidence. Barry Plummer, a clinical psychologist on the faculty of Brown University's medical school who, in private practice, works with adolescents, says that grownups should "encourage a kid to master something even if he stinks at school--a sport, music, someplace he can go where he is of value. This...
Lots of family companies struggle just to succeed. The struggle places tons of pressure on the family unit, within which there's always plenty of emotional inventory anyway. But growth is a huge problem too, and managing it presents family firms with rosier but no less complex issues. "My brother-in-law and I were giving each other the finger. Nobody was showing up for Easter dinner," recounts Park Kerr, chairman and founder of the El Paso Chile Co., a $10 million-a-year specialty-food company that sells salsas and snacks to the likes of Williams Sonoma and Neiman...
...together in an organized fashion to break federal law; in other words, the prosecutors had a classic RICO case. "They had their own vocabulary and rules," says assistant U.S. Attorney Janis Gordon, who will prosecute the case when it opens March 21. "It was a friendly competition that could succeed only with cooperation...