“You simply can’t get it done in what anybody would call a normal day because you live in a twenty-four-hour news cycle,” Bowles says. “When something might not be going on here, something is going on in Europe or Asia or the Middle East. In an average day you would deal with things like Bosnia, Northern Ireland, the budget, taxation, the environment—and then you’d have lunch. And people would always joke, ‘Thank God it’s Friday, only two more workdays till Monday.’ ”
