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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...
...what members call "norms of piety," or rituals performed every day to remind themselves that God is around them. For Anglada, who is assistant director of the residence, his day began at 5:35 a.m. when he climbed out of bed, dressed and prayed for 30 minutes in his chamber. This prayer is known as the morning offering. Next he attended a mass in the chapel connected to the residence. After that he spent about 10 minutes reading (usually something by Aquinas or Augustine). By that time it was nearly 7:45 and he joined some of his fellow numeraries...
...with one another. Several times a clearly agitated Haddock had to bang his gavel and call for order over the chatter of council members. At one point, Greenfield made a motion to have SAC Chair Ryan A. Petersen ’08 ejected “out of the chamber for being out of order.” Haddock rejected the motion. “People are being offensive... I think it is appalling,” UC Vice President Annie R. Riley ’07 could be overheard telling Haddock during the meeting. Seemingly at the direction...
...Villa Tevere, the Rome headquarters of Opus Dei, a couple of dozen men convened in a chamber similar to the one in which The Da Vinci Code's Bishop Aringarosa was handed ?20 million in Vatican bonds to set his nefarious plot in motion. From London, Paris, Milan, Madrid, New York City, Lagos and Montreal they had come, to draft a plan against a man they felt posed the most virulent threat to their order: director Ron Howard...
...favored contractors without the fuss of open bidding required by the new accord. That includes the subway contract, which went to Diandino Pea, who is Fernndez's biggest financial supporter. "Transparency is an evil word here," says Kevin P. Manning, president of the local American Chamber of Commerce. Fernndez has likened the subway to Paris' Eiffel Tower, which also faced opposition...