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Being Pope has its privileges: the first foreign visitor to be greeted on the tarmac by President Bush; 12,000 well wishers on the White House South Lawn, more than for the Queen of England; 21 guns, fife and drums, and a cake for his 81st birthday. The anticipation of Pope Benedict XVI's visit was so great, the response was so warm, it was as though his hosts were trying to raise him up, a Pontiff in many ways still in the shadow of his predecessor, John Paul Superstar. And no one seemed more eager to cast...
...Mother and son spent months preparing to follow him to Indonesia-getting shots, passports and plane tickets. Until then, neither had left the country. After a long journey, they landed in an unrecognizable place. "Walking off the plane, the tarmac rippling with heat, the sun bright as a furnace," Obama later wrote, "I clutched her hand, determined to protect her." (See pictures of Michelle Obama's hair...
...Bosnia (on which he was a guest) was accompanied by sniper fire and a mad dash across an airport runway. On March 24, Clinton, who used the anecdote as evidence of her experience, recanted when CBS footage showed her and daughter Chelsea being received with flowers on the airport tarmac...
...interest in the Republican's presumptive nominee seems low. That was reflected in comparatively small numbers of journalists waiting for him at Downing Street. As McCain climbed into his car after the press conference there, a well-known political correspondent dusted herself down after her enforced sojourn on the tarmac at his feet. "Not many people here, are there?" she said, dismissively. "Just imagine how packed it would be if Obama visited...
...soon became clear that I would not be seeing very much of it. The North Koreans, to say the least, are control freaks. Hordes of government minders immediately surrounded us on the tarmac as we waited for the orchestra's music director, Lorin Maazel, and his musicians to have a group picture taken in front of a beaming mosaic of the Great Leader. The minders, whose forced conviviality didn't hide the tension in their faces, would not leave our side until about 44 hours later, when we got on a flight out of Pyongyang...