President Obama’s birth control decision has left U.S. Catholic bishops (JEWEL SAMAD - AFP/GETTY IMAGES) President Obama may be reaping praise for his compromise over the birth control kerfuffle between the White House and the Catholic Church. The solution has been called “elegant,” “utterly sensible” and a move that the Catholic Health Association has even said made it “very pleased.”

Still, the president has not yet dodged the latest bullet in the culture wars he has tried so hard to avoid. U.S. Catholic bishops are opposed to the compromise. GOP candidates are accusing Obama of waging war on religion, teeing up an election-year hot potato that’s likely to stay up in the air for some time. And even if the compromise helps squash the loudest noise around the topic, it didn’t come before members of the president’s own party questioned the wisdom of his call.

The FBI file on Steve Jobs was released Thursday, and it provided insight into one aspect of the Apple CEO’s leadership we didn’t already know.The FBI file created on Steve Jobs when he was being considered for a government post, released Thursday, does not tell us that much we don’t already know. He experimented with drugs as a young man and had a child with a former girlfriend whom he refused to support (they later reconciled)—all topics that have been covered in past biographies of Jobs. He was not always honest with his employees, he created bitterness among those who worked for him, and he was capable of distorting “reality in order to achieve his goals.” Anyone familiar with Walter Isaacson’s recent best-selling Jobs biography knows this, too.

Nancy Brinker, founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, responded to an open letter written Wednesday in The Washington Post by columnist Sally Quinn. (HANDOUT - REUTERS) In the world of crisis communications, what has the potential to be more damaging than not issuing an apology? An apology that reads like only half of one.

Nancy Brinker’s response to Sally Quinn’s open letter to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure founder and CEO includes an admission that she made mistakes and an apology to those who were disappointed by the nonprofit’s decision to pull its funding to Planned Parenthood. (Komen later said Planned Parenthood could reapply for funding.) Brinker says she has learned a lot, including that “that we in women’s health organizations must be absolutely true to our core missions, and avoid even the appearance of bias or judgment in our decisions.”

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What is Lloyd Blankfein doing starring in an advertisement for same-sex marriage? The man running a firm that was famously called “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity” might not seem like the first person a gay rights organization would pick to be the face of their campaign. Goldman Sachs, in case you’ve been living under a rock, is not exactly the world’s most beloved corporation these days, and its CEO is a household name not for the reasons most companies would want.

President John F. Kennedy is the subject of a memoir by former White House intern Mimi Beardsley Alford, who writes of an 18-month affair with the president in the book “Once Upon a Secret”. (AP)

The questions to surface following the release of Once Upon a Secret , a former White House intern’s memoir about her 18-month-long affair with John F. Kennedy, are practically bound to go something like this: Why on earth write this book now, 50 years later? Don’t we know enough about JFK’s sex life? And aren’t some things better left private?

Yet whatever Mimi Beardsley Alford’s intentions for writing the book may be, there is a value to the memoir. As presidential historian Robert Dallek says, it will serve to balance out the perception of JFK, who has become a “rock star, a mythological figure—he’s no longer a real person.” Dallek told the Post’s Reliable Source blog that “you’re not going to put the genie back in the bottle anymore,” adding that the personal lives of our leaders have “become part of the public discourse.”