remembered for that. i don t think he ll be remembered for a brief limited strike. i think that if in the next three years he and obama manage to do anything positive anythin sector of the world, they ll be remembered as miracle makers. it s just a hideously tough problem. it s william rogers, henry kissinger, cy vance. the secretaries of states have been trying to hand this one for decades. so i don t think that he s going to be judged one way or another on his legacy as what happens in the middle east, unless something really good and big does happen, in which case both kerry and obama will come out looking like miracle workers. john, one more question here. before he ran for president in 2004, one of john kerry s best friends in washington, and certainly his best friend on the republican side, was john kerry. there was sort of this unlikely partnership with them on the issue of vietnam veterans. it was clear that john kerry was not happy how john kerry had
also this morning, let the sugar flow. new york s ban on super-sized sugary drink has been overturned. also this morning, mayor bloomberg, of course, is fuming because of the news. vowing to appeal what a judge undid yesterday. quite a complicated thing he had going there. oh, man, all over soda, man, and sugar, yeah. hot debate. and a look at the miracle makers. we go to rome for this one of course, where we draw back the curtains to discover how a man or a woman becomes a saint. this whole process, not only with the pope going on, the whole pope selection process in rome, but now that part of the story. so many fascinating details about how it s all worked out and tradition and history. cool little story there. the microscope back on rome after years and years. could be this week, matter of days. we ll see. but first, when the cardinals do enter the sistine chapel in a few hours from now, one of them, of course, will ultimately emerge as the next leader of the world s c
you re right about what the likely numbers look like at this point. no primary has been held. we don t have a final list of candidates. we have 28 women expressing an interest in running. ten positioned for open seats if they become candidates. and then the other 11 challengers. we don t know. but you know what, if there s a loss, which i think is unlikely, but if there is a loss, we re talking about the numbers going down one, if there s a win they might go up one. that s part of the pattern that we ve been watching for years now. it is slow, it is incremental. sometimes it feels stalled. to what extent do you think the presence of women in increasing number can turn around the mess on capitol hill, the gridlock? well, you know, we re miracle makers, right? and we multitask and learn how to do what we have to do. i think, the practical, pragmatic, academic that i am