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...heads an entity with its own foreign policy goals: from a desire to protect the religious sites and fast-vanishing Christians of the Holy Land, to long-held support of a Palestinian homeland, to the recent rapprochement with Israel--goals that the Pontiff could not alter simply to wow an audience. The strictly spiritual stops on the trip were interspersed with so many loaded encounters, shifting on an almost hourly basis--If this is Thursday it must be...Barak? Holocaust survivors? The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem?--that the Pope seemed like an FBI trainee in one of those fake towns...
...understand," she says. "I wasn't doing what I had trained for--navigating, driving boats, seamanship and engineering." She hitched a ride on a Navy support vessel touring the region. "They had me stand watch, do a man-overboard drill, let me drive the ship," she says. "I went, 'Wow, this is neat.' I remember thinking, 'Yes, this is what I want...
...timed to steal a little bit of Sony's thunder. But as if Fate were trying to say it didn't need any help, thank you very much, there were also signs that a PlayStation 2 backlash is brewing. The machines that gamers brought back from Japan failed to wow the influential hobbyist magazines, largely because the games that came with them--titles like Ridge Racer V and Street Fighter Ex3--have not improved as exponentially as the graphics. "It's like a prettier tablecloth, but the food's just the same," sighs Tom Rosso, editor of games magazine Next...
...comments of admiring denizens. Ted Koppel, Ron Brown, George McGovern and Sergei Khrushchev, seeking respite from the chaotic world beyond Johnston Gate, have all found solace here. Reports of sojourns range from such witticisms as "very stimulating" to "a bloody good time." John Vesey raves about this Camelot. "Wow! The Kennedy vibes are intense. Inspirational sounds so put-on but it certainly is that." Occasional remarks invite puzzled looks-- "ONION," "Long live chocolate chip cookies!" and the oh-so political "No comment." Others invoke giggles--"Yowzah!" and "Much nicer than Nixon's old room at Whittier." Sensing conspiracy, Vicki Hunter...
...stuff. Even at the level I'm at, it's not about the cameras, the makeup, the attention or the popularity. This job is all about writing, plain and simple. Can you write well? Creatively? Can you tell me a story in a short time to make me go "Wow, I didn't know that"? Can you find that information that no one else knows? My favorite thing I've ever said on "Sportscenter"...was when Homer Bush, who was playing for the Yankees at the time, hit a home run two years ago. I put together a list...