Mourning Richard C. Holbrooke (1941-2010)

I experienced him two times in person. The first time was in 1995 in Washington, D.C. where I did a student internship with NBC's "Meet the Press" and he was a guest on the Sunday morning show - it must have been around the time of the Dayton Peace Accords. I remember an agreeable diplomat. The second time was in May 2000 in Bologna, Italy, where he was the keynote speaker on Alumni Weekend of Johns Hopkins U's Bologna Center. At that time I still dreamed of becoming a diplomat or an EU official myself.
If you need some background information on the person, view today's article of the New York Times here.