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Nuns of all ages at convents in the U.S. say modern technology is helping them give the world--and prospective applicants--a more realistic picture of their lives. "There are people out there who wonder what being a nun is like," says Sister Julie Vieira, 36. "These are people who were exposed to stereotypes of nuns and don't understand how we really live." So last summer Vieira began a blog titled A Nun's Life, in which she has chronicled her days as a sister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and also a conventional-dressing, apartment-dwelling, master...
...main-street appeal and hosting savvy to succeed Barker? I'm not sure, though there's a larger applicant pool available now that Today/Millionaire host Meredith Vieira has proved the news/game-show-crossover potential. By June, at the rate things are going, Katie Couric just might be looking for her next opportunity at CBS. I'll bet she's great with pets...
After leaving Harvard last year to work with Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in Washington D.C., she has now returned to Cambridge to work on her latest book about Sergio Vieira de Mello, the former United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, a book that she is trying to turn into a major motion picture directed by Terry George, the director of “Hotel Rwanda.” She will return to teaching this spring, taking on a freshman seminar and a Kennedy School class on U.S. foreign policy and human rights. She is also trying to establish...
...goofy humor and disarming frankness won Meredith Vieira myriad fans as the host of The View and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. On Sept. 13 the veteran journalist and mother of three takes a seat opposite Matt Lauer as the new co-anchor of NBC's Today show. She talked with TIME's Jeff Chu about how her husband's battles with cancer and multiple sclerosis have changed her, working moms who want to have it all, and her favorite story of all time...
...already announced its seriousness and lethal intent with a summer bombing campaign. On Aug. 7, a bomb went off outside the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad, killing 19 people. Far more ominous was the Aug. 19 blast that destroyed the U.N.'s headquarters in Baghdad, killing U.N. representative Sergio Vieira de Mello and 22 others. Although al-Qaeda leader Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility for the attack, U.S. intelligence officials believe that remnants of Saddam's Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) carried it out. "It was a pure Baathist operation," says a senior U.S. intelligence official. "The Iraqis who served...