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...first thing you notice upon entering the center's private residential wing is the library-like hush. Interior lights remain off during daytime, putting the halls and chambers of the numeraries in a half-light. The blue carpeting on the floors is unmistakably institutional, and the aging hardwood furniture, oil paintings of ships at sea adorning the walls and wooden doorways with transoms give the place an almost clubby, old-world feel. This is the beating heart of Opus Dei. The chambers themselves, where a dozen numeraries and priests make their homes, are spartan and impeccably orderly. Hardly a scrap...
...residence and are instantly identifiable by their robes and clerical collars, other Opus Dei members (or fellows) wear no identifying garb or insignias and are thus almost indistinguishable from the tutors, visitors, workers or anyone else who may come and go in the facility. Some of the fellows wear blue jeans and sports jackets. Neckties are uncommon, which lends the place an informal...
...Matt Smyczek, an associate numerary and Director of the Midtown Center tutoring program was preparing for the evening's classes when we sat down in his office. He has a dark thatch of hair and dark eyebrows, and is dressed in a blue blazer and khaki pants. "We are not trying to convert kids to Catholicism," he says. "Kids won't learn doctrine if they don't want to." Smyczek joined Opus Dei at age 24 when he was working as a professional engineer, driven by the feeling, he said, "that there's got to be more to life than...
...forest protected by a World Heritage listing, Daintree is bursting with a dizzying array of flora and fauna, including nearly half of Australia's bird species and what often sound like most of its frogs. Butterflies float among the palms like large leaves, their wings a flash of metallic blue in the shafts of sunlight...
...interrupted by the arrival of former Virginia governor Mark Warner, clad in a blue shirt and orange tie. As Warner’s campaign manager in 2001, Jarding had helped the Democratic businessman win in a predominantly conservative state...