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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>TIMEhttps://time.com/<!\[CDATA\[Breaking news and analysis from TIME.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science and entertainment news.\]\]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:31:07 +0000en-UShourly1<!\[CDATA\[20 Years After Virginia Tech, We Can Do More to Keep Students Safe\]\]>https://time.com/article/2026/08/19/20-years-after-virginia-tech-we-can-do-more-to-keep-students-safe/<!\[CDATA\[Ideas\]\]><!\[CDATA\[Hope is not a policy, writes Joseph Samaha. We must match our back-to-school hopes with uncompromising action.\]\]><!\[CDATA\[Tim Sloan—AFP via Getty Images\]\]><!\[CDATA\[Students honor the victims of the massacre at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va on April 20, 2006.\]\]><!\[CDATA\[

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Students honor the victims of the massacre at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va on April 20, 2006\. —Tim Sloan—AFP via Getty Images

Every August, our country celebrates new beginnings. Families fill cars with bedding, desk lamps, laptops, notebooks, and high hopes. Students decorate dorm rooms and imagine the people they will become, while parents drive away with a mix of beaming pride and quiet, heavy lumps in their throats. 

Every August, I go back to 2006\. 

Twenty years ago this fall, I helped my daughter, Reema, begin her freshman year at Virginia Tech. I remember believing she had her whole life ahead of her. Like every parent, I assumed the biggest challenges she would face would be exams, homesickness, and choosing a major. 

My family could never have imagined that eight months later, she would be among the [32 people killed in her classroom](https://time.com/archive/6680784/darkness-falls/) on April 16, 2007, coming home in a mortuary van. 

In the years since, mass [violence](https://time.com/7285626/gun-violence-prevention-essay/) has become a recurring nightmare in American life. Yet every August, millions of parents still make that same drive, entrusting their children to colleges and universities across the country. No parent should have to make that journey wondering whether their child will come home safely. 

We have learned a great deal since 2007\. We know more about recognizing warning signs, responding to mental health crises, and building stronger safety protocols on campus. We know more about what [proactive prevention](https://time.com/6184653/mass-shootings-america-how-to-stop/) requires. The problem is that knowing what works and consistently doing it are two different things. 

As another academic year begins, we cannot rely on prayers or goodwill to keep our students safe. While most colleges and universities spend phenomenal budgets emphasizing sports, campus events, and academics, parents need to ask the most important question: how safe is my child? We need sustained, measurable, and accountable action from lawmakers, university leaders, and citizens. 

First, campus safety cannot remain reactive. Every college president and administrator will tell you that student safety is a top priority. But a pledge to safety is not enough. Colleges should be able to demonstrate, through regular and rigorous self-assessment, where their vulnerabilities are and what they are doing to address them. 

Every single college and university should be using the [32 National Campus Safety Initiative](https://www.vtvcare.org/32-ncsi), or 32NCSI. Through the[ VTV Family Outreach Foundation](https://www.vtvcare.org/foundation), in partnership with [NASPA](https://www.naspa.org/project/32-ncsi) (Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education), we launched this campus safety tool in memory of the 32 people killed at Virginia Tech. It gives colleges a framework for assessing critical areas of campus safety and infrastructure, including threat assessment teams, emergency communications, mental health services, and physical security.

The tools exist. The question is whether we are using them consistently, and whether we are holding ourselves accountable. 

Second, campus safety cannot begin when a student arrives at college. It must begin years earlier. Every elementary, middle, and high school should have access to evidence-based programs that help educators and school resource officers recognize concerns, build positive relationships, and address problems before they escalate. 

One such model is [Preventing Problems by Promoting Positive Practices](https://www.promotingpositivepractices.org/), or P5, developed by the [Virginia Tech Center for Applied Behavior Systems](https://support.psyc.vt.edu/centers/cabs) with support from the U.S. Department of Justice’s COPS Office, and in conjunction with VTV Family Outreach Foundation. P5 provides a comprehensive safety model and training program for K-12 school resource officers and administrators to create a safety net for students when they are in the yellow zone, prior to entering into the red zone. Simply put, it creates a culture of caring. 

Finally, we need to restore national infrastructure for campus safety. The [National Center for Campus Public Safety](https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/09/06/national-center-campus-public-safety-will-centralize-federal-institutional-resources) was established in 2013 to conduct research, develop best practices, and provide campus security training. Its federal support [eventually lapsed](https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/news/dont-let-congress-forget-about-the-national-center-for-campus-public-safety/53752) after funding allocations ran out, and the federal government no longer maintains the Center as the sustained national resource it was created to provide. While [archived federal documents](https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/nccps-key-accomplishments-july-1-2014-march-31-2019) and reports remain available through the Office of Justice Programs Virtual Library, an active national center is no longer doing the work it was created to do. This needs to change.

In 2026, there is no reason to wait for another warning sign, another missed opportunity, or another family to experience an unimaginable loss. When I watch parents drop off their freshmen this month, I do not want them to live in fear. Hope is a vital part of entering college, and every student deserves to experience the wonder of a new beginning. 

But hope is not a policy. If we truly want to honor the memory of Reema and the countless others lost to mass violence, we must match our back-to-school hopes with uncompromising action. 

Twenty years after I helped my daughter move into Virginia Tech, every parent should be able to drive away from a college campus believing their child has a whole life ahead of them. That belief should not be a matter of faith. It should be a matter of policy.

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\]\]>https://time.com/?p=bltc246a05f9cb32d22Fri, 17 Jan 2020 22:06:44 +0000<!\[CDATA\[Greg Adams\]\]><!\[CDATA\[Why TIME Devoted a Special Issue to Young Leaders\]\]>https://time.com/collections/davos-2020/5767469/new-generation-leadership/<!\[CDATA\[TIME Editor-in-Chief Edward Felsenthal on the generation ahead\]\]><!\[CDATA\[Illustration by Tim O'Brien for TIME\]\]><!\[CDATA\[

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\]\]>https://time.com/?p=blt781e5f791ebeee33Fri, 17 Jan 2020 19:46:49 +0000<!\[CDATA\[Edward Felsenthal\]\]><!\[CDATA\[6 Innovators Who are Shaping the World\]\]>https://time.com/collections/davos-2020/5765633/how-innovators-are-improving-the-world/<!\[CDATA\[Illustration by Aiste Stancikaite for TIME\]\]><!\[CDATA\[

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\]\]>https://time.com/?p=blt885e1a6ce2e3143eThu, 16 Jan 2020 20:43:52 +0000<!\[CDATA\[TIME for Kids\]\]><!\[CDATA\[World Economic Forum Founder: Young People Are Right to Be Angry, and They Deserve Seats at the Table\]\]>https://time.com/collections/davos-2020/5764096/youth-anger-klaus-schwab/<!\[CDATA\[Young people are right to be angry. They should have seats at every table\]\]><!\[CDATA\[Anoush Abrar—13 Photo/Redux\]\]><!\[CDATA\[Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF) on January 15, 2019.\]\]><!\[CDATA\[

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\]\]>https://time.com/?p=blt6921dea28dd8b716Thu, 16 Jan 2020 20:39:47 +0000<!\[CDATA\[Klaus Schwab\]\]><!\[CDATA\[Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi\]\]>https://time.com/collections/time-100-next-2019/5718860/henrique-dubugras-pedro-franceschi/<!\[CDATA\[Rachel Bujalski—The New York Times/Redux\]\]><!\[CDATA\[

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\]\]>https://time.com/?p=blt1f050693941c9f87Tue, 12 Nov 2019 22:06:09 +0000<!\[CDATA\[TIME Staff\]\]><!\[CDATA\[New Speakers Announced for the First-Ever TIME 100 Health Summit on October 17 in New York, NY\]\]>https://time.com/collections/time-100-health-summit-2019/5697582/time-100-health-summit-new-speakers/<!\[CDATA\[Press Room\]\]><!\[CDATA\[

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\]\]>https://time.com/?p=bltd8e0303afcebd05bThu, 10 Oct 2019 16:50:51 +0000<!\[CDATA\[TIME Staff\]\]><!\[CDATA\[Hillary Clinton: Anyone Else Would Have Been Indicted After Mueller Report\]\]>https://time.com/collections/time-100-summit-2019/5574159/hillary-clinton-edward-felsenthal-time-100-summit/<!\[CDATA\[Politics\]\]><!\[CDATA\[Krisanne Johnson for TIME\]\]><!\[CDATA\[Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talks to Editor-in-Chief and CEO of TIME Edward Felsenthal about creating a better future at the TIME 100 Summit in New York, on April 23, 2019.\]\]><!\[CDATA\[

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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talks to Editor-in-Chief and CEO of TIME Edward Felsenthal about creating a better future at the TIME 100 Summit in New York, on April 23, 2019\. —Krisanne Johnson for TIME

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Assistant and Senior Adviser to the President Jared Kushner speaks to Brian Bennett, Senior White House Correspondent for TIME during an interview at the TIME100 Summit in New York, on April 23, 2019\. —Krisanne Johnson for TIME

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\]\]>https://time.com/?p=bltead378ed912e4e28Thu, 20 Sep 2018 10:00:00 +0000<!\[CDATA\[Maura Johnston\]\]><!\[CDATA\[These Are the Favorites to Win the Nobel Peace Prize 2017\]\]>https://time.com/4968589/favorites-nobel-peace-prize-2017/<!\[CDATA\[World\]\]><!\[CDATA\[The winner is announced at 6am E.T. on Friday.\]\]><!\[CDATA\[Anadolu Agency—Getty Images\]\]><!\[CDATA\[Members of Syrian civil defense organization White Helmets let a white pigeon to fly for people who lost his life in chemical attack that in the Eastern Ghouta region of Damascus, Syria on Aug. 22, 2017.\]\]><!\[CDATA\[

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Members of Syrian civil defense organization White Helmets let a white pigeon to fly for people who lost his life in chemical attack that in the Eastern Ghouta region of Damascus, Syria on Aug. 22, 2017\. —Anadolu Agency—Getty Images

Pope Francis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Syrian White Helmets and the architects of the Iran nuclear deal are among the oddsmakers’ favorites to win this year’s [Nobel Peace Prize](https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel%5Fprizes/peace/), which is due to be announced on Friday.

The award is given annually to a person or people who “shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses”.

The official list of nominations remains a secret, however the committee has said that there are 318 nominees.

Here are the top candidates, based on betting odds from William Hill and Ladbrokes.

### **1\. Pope Francis**

Pope Francis has been tipped to win the award each year since he became Pope in 2013\. This year he has continued to be vocal in calls for compassion towards refugees and migrants, and is a progressive voice in the Catholic Church, a historically conservative organisation. He was TIME’s [Person of the Year](http://poy.time.com/2013/12/11/person-of-the-year-pope-francis-the-peoples-pope/) in 2013\. British betting company William Hill told TIME that Francis had received more bets than any other candidate.

Pope Francis gave President Donald Trump a copy of his landmark 2015 encyclical on climate change when the two leaders met at the Vatican on Wednesday.

### **2\. Angela Merkel**

In the years since German Chancellor announced that she would allow one million refugees into Germany during the height of Europe’s refugee crisis in 2015, she has been high on the list of Nobel favorites. This year she said she had no regrets about the policy despite the political cost, which was made manifest in last month’s German elections where she [came out with a reduced majority](http://time.com/4955080/angela-merkel-germany-election-results/). In 2015, TIME named her [Person of the Year](http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2015-angela-merkel/).

### **3\. White Helmets**

Widely predicted to win the prize last year, only to be pipped by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, the [White Helmets](http://time.com/syria-white-helmets/) or the Syria Civil Defense are a volunteer organisation that came to prominence pulling civilians from bombed-out buildings in Syria. Named after the iconic white helmets that are often their only protection, the group claims to have saved 99,000 lives since the Syrian civil war began in 2011.

### **4\. Federica Mogherini & Mohammad Javad**

The EU’s foreign policy chief [Federica Mogherini](http://time.com/4690599/federica-mogherini/) and her Iranian counterpart [Mohammad Javad](http://time.com/3822829/mohammad-javad-zarif-2015-time-100/) are the architects of the Iran nuclear agreement, a deal reached in 2015 that de-escalated tensions between the U.S. and Iran over the latter’s nuclear program. Under the agreement, Iran agreed to eliminate its stockpile of potentially weaponizable uranium, and allow international observers to oversee the country’s nuclear program, in exchange for the lifting of nuclear-related sanctions. 

### **5\. ECOWAS** 

An outsider choice with 5/1 odds from Ladbrokes is the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the regional union who this January [intervened](http://time.com/4637607/gambia-how-it-ousts-dictator-yahya-jammeh/) in Gambia to ensure a peaceful transition of power after the incumbent president of 22 years, Yahyah Jammeh, refused to relinquish power to democratically elected Adama Barrow. The military intervention forced Jammeh to step down and go into exile, with a number of troops remaining to assist Barrow with his consolidation of power and establishing Gambia’s new democratically elected government. The intervention was bloodless, although a number of people fled the political instability in the Gambia during the crisis. The last troops are expected to leave the Gambia this year.

The [Nobel Peace Prize](https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel%5Fprizes/peace/) is announced at 6am E.T. on Friday.

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\]\]>https://time.com/?p=blt120ddb1d45484611Fri, 22 Sep 2017 19:00:26 +0000<!\[CDATA\[Bernard J. Tyson\]\]><!\[CDATA\[Majority of Women Say Their Interest in Politics Has Increased Since Election\]\]>https://time.com/4867436/donald-trump-polling-women-interest/<!\[CDATA\[Politics\]\]><!\[CDATA\[Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg/Getty Images\]\]><!\[CDATA\[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the initial meeting of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, on July 19, 2017.\]\]><!\[CDATA\[

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the initial meeting of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, on July 19, 2017\. —Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg/Getty Images

More women than men say that their interest in politics has increased since President Trump’s election, according to [a new poll](http://www.people-press.org/2017/07/20/since-trumps-election-increased-attention-to-politics-especially-among-women/?utm%5Fsource=adaptivemailer&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=17-07-20%20trump%20&%20politics&org=982&lvl=100&ite=1476&lea=0&ctr=0&par=1&trk=&utm%5Fsource=AdaptiveMailer&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=17-07-20%20Trump%20&%20Politics&org=982&lvl=100&ite=1476&lea=307948&ctr=0&par=1&trk=).

A Pew Research Center poll released Thursday found that 58 percent of women say they are more interested in politics since November, compared to 46 percent of men. Overall, 52 percent of Americans say their interest in politics has spiked since the election.

Trump won the election by strong support from male voters, winning men by 12 points. According to exit polls, the 2016 election was decided by the [largest gender gap in recorded history](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/09/men-handed-trump-the-election/?utm%5Fterm=.e8a76cdab42c).

Interest has spiked the most among Democratic women–63 percent of Democratic women say they are more attentive to politics, compared to 54 percent of Republican women. Democratic women are also most likely to say that they have gone to a political event since the election. The Women’s March–which happened the day after Trump’s inauguration in protest of the president–[was likely the largest political rally in U.S. history](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/02/07/this-is-what-we-learned-by-counting-the-womens-marches/?utm%5Fterm=.5c4997f09d1a).

Overall, Democrats are about three times as likely as Republicans to say they have been to a political gathering–22 percent compared to 7 percent.

Details of the new administration are prolific on news and social media, and Americans say it's stressing them out

For the majority of the country, the election of Trump is still stressful to talk about. The poll found that 59 percent of the country feels it’s “stressful and frustrating” to talk about politics with people who don’t share their opinion of Trump. More women (64 percent) than men (54 percent) feel this way.

\]\]>https://time.com/?p=blt22fe87ac3dc141f6Fri, 21 Jul 2017 17:09:19 +0000<!\[CDATA\[Jack Brewster\]\]><!\[CDATA\[Sen. Lindsey Graham: It Was Russia, 'Not Some 400-Pound Guy' That Hacked the 2016 Election\]\]>https://time.com/4771426/lindsey-graham-election-interference-400-pound-hacker/<!\[CDATA\[Politics\]\]><!\[CDATA\["There’s no doubt in my mind it was the Russians involved"\]\]><!\[CDATA\[Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg/Getty Images\]\]><!\[CDATA\[Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, makes an opening statement during a hearing with former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates in Washington, D.C., on May 8, 2017.\]\]><!\[CDATA\[

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Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, makes an opening statement during a hearing with former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates in Washington, D.C., on May 8, 2017\. —Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg/Getty Images

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham countered President Donald Trump’s previous comments about who was responsible for the hacks that influenced the 2016 presidential election during his opening remarks at a [Senate Judiciary subcommittee](http://time.com/4754803/donald-trump-russia-investigation-momentum/) hearing Monday,saying there was “no doubt in his mind” Russians were involved,

Graham cited intelligence findings that Russian operatives tried to interfere in the election by hacking into the Democratic National Committee computer network as well as the emails of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.

“I think every American should be concerned about what the Russians did. From my point of view, there’s no doubt in my mind it was the Russians involved in all the things I just described — not some 400-pound guy sitting on a bed, or any other country,” Graham said. “Russia is up to no good when it comes to democracies all over the world.”

Graham’s comments appeared to reference [statements made by Trump](http://fortune.com/2016/09/26/presidential-debate-hackers-body-shamed/?iid=sr-link1) during a presidential debate in September.

Sally Yates delivered her opening statement about the concerns she raised regarding one of President Donald Trump's national security adviser Michael Flynn and his connections with Russia

“I mean, it could be Russia, but it could also be China. It could also be lots of other people. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds,” Trump [said](http://fortune.com/2016/09/26/presidential-debate-hackers-body-shamed/?iid=sr-link1) at the time. “You don’t know who broke into DNC.”

Trump again [raised the possibility](http://fortune.com/2017/04/30/trump-china-democrat-hack/?iid=sr-link4) that China orchestrated the DNC hack in an interview last month, though he offered no evidence to back the allegation.

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\]\]>https://time.com/?p=bltc073cdfe9c333538Thu, 16 Feb 2017 11:45:03 +0000<!\[CDATA\[TIME Staff\]\]><!\[CDATA\[What the First Days Working at the White House Are Like\]\]>https://time.com/4631782/obama-white-house-first-day/<!\[CDATA\[Politics\]\]><!\[CDATA\[Not even the president knows where to go\]\]><!\[CDATA\[David Hume Kennerly—Getty Images\]\]><!\[CDATA\[While Barack Obama is being sworn in as as the 44th president of the United States, his family's possessions are unloaded from moving trucks and put in place in the White House living quarters on January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC.\]\]><!\[CDATA\[

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While Barack Obama is being sworn in as as the 44th president of the United States, his family's possessions are unloaded from moving trucks and put in place in the White House living quarters on January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. —David Hume Kennerly—Getty Images

When a new president’s staff moves into the White House, there’s a lot to do. Not only do aides need to find their offices, learn where the pens are kept and meet the other members of their team, but they also have to be ready to help govern the most powerful country in the world.

TIME asked staffers from President Barack Obama’s administration to recall their introduction to the White House, and to give advice to Team Trump. From learning the phone system to meeting the longtime White House staff, here are some of Team Obama’s best nuggets from the early days of his presidency:

**Dan Pfeiffer, former Senior Advisor to the President**: Most people don’t understand how the actual handover of power works. We all sit in the freezing cold. We watch the final culmination of years of effort to see our friend and boss become President of the United States. Then for the senior team, you get on a bus and they take you to the White House. They drop you off, and someone shows you your office. You walk in and there’s a computer there with a Post-it note with your password, and you’re in charge of the government. Full stop.

**Josh Earnest, Press Secretary**: You literally don’t know how anything works. At the night after the second full day, the President and First Lady hosted a staff party for people who had worked on the transition, the campaign and the Inaugural Committee. I missed almost the entire party because I was still in the lower press office figuring out how the next day we were going to send a video link to the weekly address.

**Yohannes Abraham, Deputy Assistant to the President for the Office of Public Engagement and Inter­governmental Affairs**: You’re literally frantically looking at the guy next to you, like “Hey Gary, how the heck does the printer work? Does anyone have any idea how to order food? Does anyone have any idea?”

**Jason Furman, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers**: In terms of figuring out who would be in what office, we had looked at the floor plan, and we had a plan to put both of National Economic Council director Larry Summers’ domestic deputies in the West Wing. Then we actually got to the West Wing, looked around and discovered that one of the two rooms we had thought was an office was actually a foyer to the women’s bathroom. That particular seating arrangement ended up not surviving.

**Brian Deese, Senior Adviser to the President**: For the first couple of days, I was literally squatting in a hallway in the second floor of the West Wing.

**Furman:** We also saw people’s names were taped to the doors. There was a brief moment when the offices right across the hall from ours looked a lot better than ours, and we thought maybe we would just move the taped names and see if we could get away with it. We decided that probably wouldn’t be the best way to ingratiate ourselves with our new colleagues.

**Jen Psaki, Communications Director**: None of us knew where the bathroom was. I still didn’t know there was one on the first floor until probably the second year I was here. It may have been the first day, when the President came out of the Oval and walked over into the upper press area to see Robert Gibbs in the press secretary’s office, and a number of reporters were streaming out. He said, “Oh wait, they can come over here?” He wasn’t aware of how everything was set up.

**Lisa Brown, former Staff Secretary**: I remember the President, by accident, walking into my office on Day Two, because he didn’t even know his way around yet.

**Abraham:** The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act passed. It was going to be the first bill that the President signed, and my boss at the time told us at our staff meeting that we were going to do a signing ceremony. Everyone was excited. After a couple seconds, my buddy and I looked at each other and our expressions slowly changed from excitement to the realization that no one yet knew how to do the little stuff. How do you clear guests into the building? How do you reserve the right room? Where do you get the pens? Who stands where?

**Katie McCormick Lelyveld, former Press Secretary for First Lady Michelle Obama:** We got to White House, and the First Lady called us all into the East Room. There in a big circle was the resident staff, ushers, chefs and pastry chefs, and many other team members. She said, “This is the team I came in with,” referring to us. “This is the team that’s in place here, and they’re in charge now. They know the ins and outs. They know the history. It’s our responsibility to defer to them and ask them questions and follow their leadership.”

To read more advice from Obama’s White House team to Donald Trump’s incoming advisers, see [the full story here](http://time.com/white-house-interviews/), or pick up a copy of the latest issue of TIME magazine.

\]\]>https://time.com/?p=blt914a70b2de884978Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:30:55 +0000<!\[CDATA\[Abigail Abrams\]\]><!\[CDATA\[Clare Hollingworth, Journalist Who Broke the News of World War II, Dies at 105\]\]>https://time.com/4630092/clare-hollingworth-obituary/<!\[CDATA\[World\]\]><!\[CDATA\[During her first journalism job, for the Daily Telegraph, she achieved the "scoop of a century"\]\]><!\[CDATA\[United News/Popperfoto/Getty Images\]\]><!\[CDATA\[British journalist and author Clare Hollingworth in London, on May 14, 1985.\]\]><!\[CDATA\[

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British journalist and author Clare Hollingworth in London, on May 14, 1985\. —United News/Popperfoto/Getty Images

[Clare Hollingworth](http://time.com/4520940/clare-hollingworth-war-correspondent-birthday-hong-kong/), the veteran war correspondent who broke the news that [World War II](http://time.com/3194657/world-war-ii-anniversary/) had [started](http://time.com/3486074/world-war-ii-erupts-color-photos-from-the-invasion-of-poland-1939/), has died in Hong Kong at the age of 105.

Hollingworth was born in rural Leicestershire in central England on Oct. 10, 1911\. Although she grew up on a farm in the countryside, her childhood was still overshadowed by World War I, which began in 1914\. As Dominique Rowe recently [explored in an in-depth TIME.com profile of Hollingworth and her work,](http://time.com/4520940/clare-hollingworth-war-correspondent-birthday-hong-kong/) Hollingworth decided from a young age that she wanted to be a writer, but first spent time in Poland, arranging the evacuation of more than 3,500 political and Jewish refugees to Britain in the lead-up to World War II.

When she left Poland in 1939, her expertise in that country proved to be essential to what would be the defining moment of her career, as Rowe reported:

> Within a month of returning to England, she had secured a job as a war correspondent for the _Telegraph_, and almost immediately returned back to the Polish-German border in Katowice, where she stayed with a diplomat friend from the Foreign Office.
> 
> Knowing that war may be imminent, and bolstered by the presence of a diplomatic flag, she borrowed her host’s car, and “motored off alone into Nazi Germany” to stock up on wine and aspirin. As she drove back along the border, a fabric partition separating the two countries flapped momentarily in the wind, exposing “scores, if not hundreds of tanks” in the valley below. And there was her first big scoop: the outbreak of World War II.
> 
> Three days later, at 5 a.m. on Sept. 1, 1939, Hollingworth was awoken by the sound of tanks rolling past her window. She scrambled to call her editor, as well as the British and Polish Foreign Offices, each of whom met her news with disbelief. (At this point Poland thought it was still in negotiations with Germany.)

Hollingworth’s important role in her profession continued long after that groundbreaking scoop. As well as writing five books, Hollingworth covered conflicts in Europe, North Africa and Asia for the _Telegraph_ and the _Guardian_. (And, when a ban was imposed on British female correspondents on the front lines in Egypt in 1942, she approached the American press instead and became [accredited by TIME](https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0005.html).)

**_Read more:_**[_The Correspondent Who Scooped the World_](http://time.com/4520940/clare-hollingworth-war-correspondent-birthday-hong-kong/)

Hollingworth married her second husband Geoffrey Hoare, the London _Times_‘ Middle East correspondent, in 1951\. He died about a decade later.

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In 1973, Hollingworth became the first Beijing-based correspondent for the _Telegraph,_ a position she held for three years, and later moved to Hong Kong in the 1980s as the _Telegraph’_s Southeast Asia correspondent. Until her death, Hollingworth lived in Hong Kong, in an apartment near the Foreign Correspondents’ Club (FCC). Despite the onset of macular degeneration in 1995, Rowe reported, “she never officially retired and ‘Clare’s Table’ at the FCC was reserved for her every single day, in case she turned up for lunch or dinner.”

Tara Joseph, president of the FCC, said in a statement that the organization was “very sad” to hear about Hollingworth’s passing. “She was a tremendous inspiration to us all,” Joseph said.

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