Fortunately Ms. Jansing's other loyal Albany-area viewers and I weren't the only ones to recognize her talents.

WSJ: An Anchor's Rise

The talents that enabled him to succeed included the ones you would expect in any art department: creativity, a good eye, diplomacy.

FORBES: Sidelines

This will give him the right to block nominees with no evident talents for a commissioner's job, and to demote lousy ones once in office. (Next year's constitutional conference might give him the power to sack them outright.) But governments could respond bitterly all the same if the commissioner involved is theirs.

ECONOMIST: The challenge awaiting Romano Prodi