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MY colleague Kate O'Beirne once told me the story of her brief meeting with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. The O'Beirne family met the pontiff at his private Mass. He chatted pleasantly with her sons about soccer and whatnot, and then moved on to others in the pews.
Or at least that's what Kate has been told. She doesn't remember the conversation at all, so awed was she by the encounter. I was reminded of this sweet story when I read about Kim Mack, who was looking for a mere presidential candidate but found much more in Barack Obama. "He looked at me, and the look in his eyes was worth 1,000 words," Mack told the Sacramento Bee. She's now a field organizer ...