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Mandela made himself indispensable by dispensing with the things that empowered tyrants: pride, power, anger and vengeance
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Almost everyone had forgotten about the Argentine. But he almost beat out Ratzinger the last time around.
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The key to analyzing how the new Pope will rule may lie in the factions of Cardinals that come together to elect him
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The election of the new pope will have an element that few past conclaves did: the influence of the still-living old pope
Journalists at Risk: How an NBC Correspondent Emerged from Syrian Captivity
Richard Engel’s saga is emblematic of the increasing chaos in northern Syria, a region where no one is in control