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...nominated as Deputy Defense Secretary and who could face confirmation hearings as early as this week. Now that Rumsfeld is pushing plans to transform the Defense Department into a leaner, more agile fighting machine, he wants a deputy with more business savvy to see those programs completed. England's predecessor, Paul Wolfowitz, preferred strategizing grand operations like the Iraq war over managing the nuts and bolts of the department, which is what a deputy defense chief traditionally does. England, a seasoned defense-industry exec who helped develop the F-16 fighter, isn't a neocon ideologue like Wolfowitz...
...virtually unknown Papa Wojtyla was elected 26 years ago, the 78-year-old German has been a major public presence here for more than two decades. And the Romans, and Italians more generally, will be the first to gauge how "Cardinale Ratzinger" will evolve into "Il Papa." His predecessor, who was the first non-Italian pope in 455 years, won over many hearts the very first evening he spoke to the Piazza: "I will speak in your, OUR language," he toned to the faithful below. "And when I make a mistake, you will correct me!" Ratzinger already speaks flawless Italian...
...tonight, he will have to speak directly to the people, who will inevitably judge him against the standard of his imposing predecessor, friend and boss. This small, unassuming white-haired figure who we will now and forever know as Benedict XVI told the piazza this evening that he was just a "simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord." Now he must begin to fill the role of pastor, of leader of the flock, a shepherd who can move the faithful and cast his own large shadow across this grand piazza, this blessed city, and a turbulent world outside...
...Autocratic rule did not solve these problems, and continued repression will only make them fester. Even if a corrupt and autocratic ruler is replaced by another corrupt insider, as may happen in Kyrgyzstan, the successor will certainly find his behavior constrained by the example of what happened to his predecessor...
...asked a handful of current Harvard players by email to talk about their unusual Crimson predecessor. Most of them, then, gloomily wondered what might have been...