Personality Profile

LEAD : VATICAN CITY -- The man considered by many to be the second-most powerful figure in the Roman Catholic Church for more than two decades was usually able to walk the streets of Rome unrecognized, occasionally approached by tourists who figured the round-faced fellow in a cassock could give them directions.
- I don't think that the writer uses any of the examples given in class for the lead. He more or less gives you a sense of what his life was like before being pope.

NUT GRAPH:
Rising from wunderkind theologian to being a pope's most influential adviser, the new Pope Benedict XVI has long had a high professional profile. His reputation for intellectual acuity and sharp stances stretched through much of the Catholic world.
- I believe the writers main point is show in this paragraph. It tells how he rose to become Pope and tell of him having a high professional profile. The paragraph enables him to go on about the Pope's life.

The writers doesn't really portray his physical details, but give good details on his life and mannerism. He more or less touched on how the Pope came to be from his childhood. He gave details on where he was born, what others had to say abuot his mannerism. What the Pope did up until the time of being pope, all the way from when he was a little kid.

I believe he uses anecdotes, he more or less embodies other stories into the story, about his childhood, etc.