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ace the Nation, one of the country’s longest-running news programs, celebrates its 60th anniversary today. With his deep historical knowledge, Texas warmth, and humble demeanor, Bob Schieffer, 77, has been a comforting Sunday morning presence since he became the face of the show in 1991. This year also marks his 45th anniversary with CBS News. Face the Nation recently won an Emmy for its coverage of the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, which you covered as a reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. A woman called in and said, “Is there anybody there who can give me a ride to Dallas?” I almost hung up the phone, but I didn’t. I said, “Lady, we don’t run a taxi service here, and besides, the president has been shot.” She said, “Yes, I heard on the radio. I think my son is the one they’ve arrested.” It was Lee Harvey Oswald’s mother. I quickly wrote down her address, got another reporter, and we went to the address she’d given us, on the west side of Fort Worth. She got in the backseat with me, and the other reporter, Bill Foster, drove. We took her to Dallas and I had quite an interview with her.

How do you escape the news? I am sort of an amateur painter and I’ve always done art. I expect that if I hadn’t been a reporter, I might have wound up doing something like that. But the other part is, we have our little band, Honkytonk Conﬁdential. I call it my secret life as a songwriter. In 2008, we were invited to be on The Grand Ole Opry. The weekend after that, I was moderating a debate at Hofstra University between President Obama and John McCain. I was a lot more nervous that night when I walked out on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry than I have ever been moderating a presidential debate.

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could surprise my wife with and she would like it. So years ago I just gave up on that, and before Christmas and anniversaries I say, “What do you really want?” And we always buy those gifts together. What are your Sundays like? I get up about 5:30 a.m. and try to get into the ofﬁce by 6 a.m., because we get in early to talk to our overseas correspondents about what is going on. So it is pretty hectic around here on Sundays. We have got a great team and we’ve worked together for a long

time, so it’s really also a lot of fun. After the show ends, generally I go home and my wife and I have breakfast. More Sundays than not, by about one in the afternoon, I am sound asleep. I might log in about a two-hour nap and then sometimes I get up and go watch my grandchildren play tennis. I have three granddaughters—our 13-year-old twins live in Washington and one lives in Connecticut. Then my wife and I have a little neighborhood restaurant where we usually have Sunday night dinner.

What is your guilty TV viewing pleasure? Homeland is my all-time favorite show. I have been lucky enough that Claire Danes has been my date for two years at the White House Correspondents dinner. I tell everybody we are very close friends. She is a wonderful person. She is also happily married and has a wonderful husband. Who have been your favorite interviews? I am asked that a lot, and I say, “Whoever happens to be president,” because whatever the president says always makes news. But I have to tell you, Maya Angelou, just from the standpoint of somebody who was fun to interview, was number one. She was just someone that you could see yourself sitting around and talking to for four hours and never becoming bored. —Beverly Keel NOVEMBER 9, 2014 | 13

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ing young soldiers, he thought he had a special set of skills for working in a classroom. Oclander sent out his résumé to some of the country’s largest charter school networks and public school systems. Your background is great, he was told, but do you have a teaching credential? Do you have classroom experience? When he said no, the universal response was thanks, but no thanks. Unwilling to give up, Oclander tapped West Point’s alumni network and connected with a fellow graduate in Chicago who ran a mentoring program. From him, Oclander learned that Illinois allows charter schools to hire teachers without credentials. The man urged Oclander to contact the Noble Network of Charter Schools. When Oclander got in touch with Noble’s chief executive, Michael Milkie, he was invited for an interview. “I don’t have credentials. I don’t have classroom experience,” Oclander told Milkie at the outset. “If that’s a deal killer, let me know and I won’t waste your time.” “I hire talent,” Milkie said. “I don’t hire credentials.”

hree months later, Oclander was teaching a course on leadership at a Noble school on Chicago’s crime-ridden West Side. It didn’t take long for students to learn that Mr. O wasn’t like their other teachers. Junior Dennis Martir decided to show up the old soldier. Martir, a Puerto Rican who lacked a ripple of fat on his muscled frame, challenged Oclander to a push-up contest. The competitor in Oclander couldn’t resist.

Students around them counted. Martir pumped out forty. Oclander hit sixty. A few days later, Oclander pulled Martir aside to ask whether he had ever thought about applying to a service academy. Martir said he was thinking of enlisting in the army to become a rank-and-ﬁle soldier, if he couldn’t land a college scholarship. Oclander explained that the academies provide a four-year college education for free, but they do require a ﬁve-year commitment to the armed forces upon graduation. “It sounds like the perfect combination for you,” he said, urging Martir to apply for a weeklong summer program at West Point.

“I’VE FAILED SO MANY TIMES I’VE STOPPED COUNTING. FAILING DOESN’T DEFINE YOU. IF YOU DEFINE YOURSELF BY A SNAPSHOT IN TIME, YOU ARE SHORTCHANGING YOURSELF.” Martir went, and loved it. “We bonded with each other within the week,” he said of he and his fellow aspiring cadets. They came from across the nation, across the class spectrum, across racial lines. But few others had navigated a path as remarkable as Martir’s. In Chicago, Martir’s house was located on the fault line between two rival gangs, the Cobras and the Eagles. When he was 9, he watched through his bedroom window as one man shot another on the street below. The gunman spotted young Dennis—a potential witness—and shot at him. The bullet missed his head by inches. From that day on, his mother, Yolanda, kept him at home when he wasn’t at school. There would be no playing basketball on the neighborhood courts or biking through the streets for him, and no gooﬁng off at home, either. After watching him attend eight grades of Chicago public schools without being assigned enough work to require his carrying a book bag, Martir’s stepfather enrolled him in a Noble charter. When Martir began his senior year in 2013, Oclander helped him navigate West Point’s application process, which requires candidates to be nominated by a member of Congress. Martir’s test scores were on the bubble for an academy, but the young man ﬁgured that even if he didn’t make it, his stepfather would be proud of his perseverance. That January, Martir’s stepfather was killed in a car accident. Two days later, Martir received word that he had been admitted to the academy. In March, Oclander took Dennis and Yolanda to an annual celebration of West Point’s founding, hosted by Chicago-area alumni at a posh country club in the suburbs. As they chatted at the event, she

told Oclander that Dennis’s biological father had been one of the city’s biggest drug dealers and that he had been in prison for much of Dennis’s youth. Learning about Martir’s father confirmed for Oclander that West Point was the right school for Dennis. The kid was a fighter and a survivor. He had his own moral compass. And his life experience in urban Chicago would bring a fresh perspective to a tradition-bound institution dominated for years by white men raised in rural America. “He knows more about overcoming obstacles than most other kids his age,” Oclander said. Martir had picked up some of that skill on the streets and at home. But it was Oclander, he said, who taught him more than anyone else how to smash through barriers to achieve a goal that he hadn’t even known existed 20 months earlier. “He has made the impossible possible for me,” Martir said a few days before his high school graduation. As the two lunched at a Brazilian restaurant, Martir told Oclander he was inspired by his career in uniform as much as he was by what Oclander had to say. He looked over at Oclander and said, “When I’m done with being a soldier, I want to be like you. I want to find a way to keep serving my country.”

Excerpted from For Love of Country: What Our Veterans Can Teach Us About Citizenship, Heroism, and Sacriﬁce by Howard Schultz and Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Knopf ).

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troopers. They were heading to the outskirts of Kandahar, the secondlargest city in the country, where they would be building and manning checkpoints on every road heading into the urban center. It was a dangerous assignment that would leave them exposed to Taliban attacks, but it was an important component of a new U.S. strategy to beat back the insurgency. Keeping his troops focused and conﬁdent, and pushing them to learn and stay ﬁt, improved their odds of returning home alive. An Indiana-raised son of an Argentine immigrant, Oclander had spent his adult life defending his nation. Though he was a talented soccer player, he turned aside recruiting pitches from several universities to enroll in the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He spent

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he said to one young man. A girl named Kayla said that she was thinking of dropping out. Oclander walked over and squatted next to her. “I’ve failed so many times I’ve stopped counting,” he said. “Failing doesn’t deﬁne you. If you deﬁne yourself by a snapshot in time, you are shortchanging yourself. You’re all going to college. You all have the potential.”

our years earlier, Oclander had delivered a similar rahrah talk to soldiers in the badlands of Afghanistan, where he commanded a battalion task force of a thousand para-

most of the next two decades in the 82nd Airborne Division, rising through the officer ranks. He deployed twice to Iraq and once to Afghanistan. When he returned, he took an assignment planning future military missions on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff. Oclander’s desk in the basement of the Pentagon had three computers. Two were connected to an internal Defense Department network. The other he used to keep abreast of world news. One day in August 2011 a headline from Chicago caught his eye: “Boy, 13, Dead from Gunshot on Basketball Court.” A week later, he read a story about another child in Chicago who had also been shot to death. Oclander began to track homicides in Chicago. He compared the tallies of attacks on U.S. troops in Afghanistan that he received through his classified computer to the violent deaths in America’s third-largest city. “Chicago Homicides Outnumber U.S. Troop Killings in Afghanistan.” The greatest threat to our country is no longer overseas, it’s within our borders, he thought to himself. He wondered what he, a career soldier, could do. With his leadership skills, his commitment to fitness, and his experience in mentor-

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he post-9/11 years have brought us the longest period of sustained warfare in our nation’s history. We have met this unprecedented challenge with a small cadre of citizens who charged forth to serve so that the rest of us could go on with life as usual. We have asked so much of them—and of their families. The multiple, yearlong deployments that many uncomplainingly fulfilled often amounted to more time on the battlefield than their parents faced in Vietnam or their grandparents confronted in the Second World War. They missed birthdays and graduations, dance recitals and Little League games. Many spent their tours in Iraq and Afghanistan under the constant threat of getting blown up. For too long, too many of us have paid scant attention to the sacrifice of a brave few in our midst. It is unhealthy for a nation to become detached from those who secure it. As the war in Afghanistan winds down, it is tempting to see this as a moot issue. It is not. Our nation will continue to send men and women into harm’s way for years to come, albeit in smaller tranches, as extremists bent on attacking the United States and our citizens abroad find safe haven in lawless parts of the Middle East and Africa. But the next phase of our wars is shifting to the home front. More than 1.5 million post-9/11 veterans have already taken off their uniforms and entered the civilian world. Another million will be following them in the next few years, as enlistments end and budget cuts shrink our military. They deserve to enter a society that welcomes

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Oclander looked each kid in the eye as he or she passed. “Hey, great essay.” Another student got a ﬁst bump. “Much improvement.” Two-thirds of the class were Hispanic, the rest African-American. They hailed from Chicago’s toughest neighborhoods, where drugs were hawked on the corners and gunﬁre was heard nightly. They hoped this aging West Side building would be their ticket out. The school, Chicago Bulls College Prep, had been endowed by the charitable arm of the city’s eponymous professional basketball team. And so the kids trekked here every morning, some traveling as much as an hour on buses and trains. The previous week, Oclander had invited an Ethiopian refugee to share with the class his remarkable journey to the ivy-strewn campus of Harvard. Of all the advice the young man imparted, Oclander asked his students, “What was the most meaningful for you?” “Don’t study what you know,” one boy said. Oclander followed up with a reference to a popular exercise program. “Who loves doing CrossFit?”

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I really enjoy the brothers on Supernatural. Do the actors who play them get along in real life? —April Q., Seattle A: Indeed—it’s a mutual admiration society for the two actors who portray the ghost-busting siblings Sam and Dean Winchester on the hit CW Network series. “We’ll forever have a Jensen Ackles (left) and Jared Padalecki of Supernatural

friendship that is a lot different than most. It’s been quite an amazing ride,” says Jensen Ackles (Sam), 36. Adds Jared Padalecki (Dean), 32, “This sounds like a cop-out, but I feel I’d be doing a disservice to try and put into words what I’ve learned from Jensen. We literally have more than grown up together.”

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Desperate Housewives alum Felicity Huffman, 52, takes on a personal cause, Ford Warriors in Pink, a breast cancer initiative sponsored by the automaker; she also appears on the big screen in Rudderless and the upcoming ABC limited series American Crime. How did you get involved with Ford Warriors in Pink? I’ve had family members affected by breast cancer. The group commissioned a national survey and found that 87 percent of mothers felt they can talk to their daughters about anything, but less than half have had a conversation about breast health. When I heard that statistic, I went, “That’s me; I have to talk with my girls,” who are 12 and 13. What was it like working with your husband, William H. Macy, on his film directorial debut, Rudderless? I trust his taste. He knows what I’m capable of. I know, as his wife, I could ask for another take; I know, as his wife, I shouldn’t. What is your takeaway from Desperate Housewives? [It was like doing] a one-act play every week for eight years. Hopefully, I improved. The final blessing was [creator] Marc Cherry made women over 40 viable on TV, and that’s great. What can you say about the American Crime series, in which you will be starring in early 2015? John Ridley, who wrote 12 Years a Slave, produced, wrote, and directed the pilot and the first few episodes. We have a fantastic multiethnic, multigenerational cast.

The son of a preciouswood merchant, Sharif, 82, was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and earned a degree in math and physics at the University of Cairo. 2

He then made some 20 movies in Egypt before his ﬁrst Englishlanguage ﬁlm, Lawrence of Arabia, in 1962. 3

He’s ﬂuent in more than ﬁve languages. 4

He’s never won an Oscar. 5

A world-class bridge player, he’s written several books and a syndicated newspaper column about his beloved card game.

Michelle Monaghan

Q: What does Michelle Monaghan think about rekindling old ﬂames after starring in The Best of Me, about two high school lovebirds reuniting 20 years later? —Daniel S., Miami A: Since she married Peter White, an Australian graphic artist she met in 2000, the Iowa-born actress hasn’t had any personal encounters with former heartthrobs. But she can see the possibility for others. “If you have that opportunity, if you have that second chance, you might just be able to ﬁnd yourself in the position to do that,” says the True Detective costar, 38. “I am a wishful thinker.”

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SUPERNATURAL BROS BBY BRIAN BOWEN SMITH/THE CW; CARLOS PONCE BY ABC/BOB D’AMICO; MICHELLE MONAGHAN BY GEMMA LAMANA/RELATIVITY

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Q: What can you tell me about Carlos Ponce? I liked him in Couples Retreat. —Raquel G., El Paso A: The telenovela heartthrob, who just wrapped the role of attorney Humberto Cano on Santa Diabla, the serial drama on Telemudo, is testing his comedy chops in the new ABC series Cristela. “This is a dream job; it’s what I’ve always wanted to do,” says Ponce, 42, who plays Felix, the long-suffering brotherin-law of Cristela (Cristela Alonzo). “I love to laugh and make fun of myself. My kids have a song about me: ‘Bad Jokes Dad.’”

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