| | By Made by History / Produced by Olivia B. Waxman | The eyes of the world are focused on the Vatican and the papal conclave. People are desperate for any tidbit of information about what is happening in secret and who the next pope might be. Reflecting the power and unique role of the Vatican, governments want this information too. Historically, as Yvonnick Denoël explains in Made by History, that has meant intelligence agencies doing everything they can to gather information. These previous efforts typically begin long before a conclave starts, in the hopes of getting a sense of the politics of the conclave and which direction the cardinals might be leaning in. The Vatican Security Services say they do everything they can to prevent spying, but no system is perfect. Nonetheless, the nature of the secretive conclave, Denoël explains, means that even intelligence agencies face a steep challenge in trying to game out what might happen. | |
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| | | | | | This week in 1953: Oveta Culp Hobby, the second woman to serve in a U.S. presidential cabinet |  | The May 4, 1953, cover of TIME |
| Boris Chaliapin |
| "Because her department is newest in the Cabinet, Secretary Hobby must walk at the end of all official Cabinet processions, yet her Department of Health, Education and Welfare is bigger in budget terms ($1.7 billion in fiscal 1953) than all other Cabinet departments, save Defense and Treasury...Ike Eisenhower chose Oveta Hobby to run the new welfare department partly because Oveta is a Texan and he owed an election debt to Texas, partly because she is a woman and he had promised to install women in positions of responsibility. But he chose her principally because Oveta Hobby possesses a rare talent for tactful administration. The Senate agreed with the President." |
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| | This week in 1976: Jimmy Carter |  | The May 10, 1976, cover of TIME |
| TIME |
| "Starting out 17 months ago with no national political base, name recognition or backing from powerful interest groups, onetime Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter had carved out on his own a broad constituency of smalltown and rural voters, blue-collar ethnics, white-collar suburbanites, inner-city blacks. Week after week, winning primaries in the North, South and Midwest, he steadily thinned the ranks of his rivals. Last week by triumphing decisively and against formidable odds in Pennsylvania's pivotal primary, he all but crushed his remaining opposition, including Democratic Senior Statesman Hubert Humphrey…In an interview last week, he mused to TIME Correspondent Dean E. Fischer: 'Most of my attitude toward Government is very aggressive. I wouldn't be a quiescent or a timid President.'" |
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| This week in 1999: Kids and the Internet |  | The May 10, 1999, cover of TIME |
| Raymond Gendreau |
| "[I]t's not as if governmental action can really make any difference. The Internet is too diffuse, too international, too much the cat that long ago escaped the bag... For the wonder and the horror of the Web is not that it takes you out into the world; on the contrary, it brings the world–in all its glorious, anarchic, beautiful, hateful variety–into your home. We'd all prefer that the porn, the neo-Nazis, the violent misogynists and all the other floating trash of a cacophonous culture not wash up into our living rooms. But because they do, we are at least able to know the enemy. We can devise strategies to steer our children away from what's worst on the Net, and toward what is best, even as they grow up much, much too fast." |
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