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...Revoir to Job Security My advice to the students demonstrating and rioting throughout France over the youth labor law [March 27] is: Get over it. Job security no longer exists. I am an American who graduated from college in the early '90s when the U.S. economy was in a serious recession. I spent the next two years working as an unpaid intern. At least Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin's "first employment contract" would offer graduates the equivalent of paid internships. The global marketplace is changing rapidly, and without employment flexibility, France will not be able to compete. People...
...Following the discovery of gold in California, some 150,000 Chinese sail to the U.S. A few find fortune in the mines?San Francisco is still known as "Old Gold Mountain" in Chinese?but discrimination relegates most to menial labor, including construction of the transcontinental railroad...
That all changed in 1982. Pope John Paul II, also a creative traditionalist interested in labor and faith, granted Escrivá's wish that Opus be a "personal prelature," a global quasi-diocese, able in some cases to leapfrog local archbishops and deal directly with Rome. Almost simultaneously the Pope publicly constricted the competing, more liberal Jesuit order. A perception that Opus' ecclesiastical power knew no limits peaked with Escrivá's 1992 beatification, a brief (for those days) 17 years after his death. Faultfinders, notes Allen, claimed that the judging panel had been packed and Escrivá's critics blackballed; they viewed...
...year-old Spanish priest named Josemaría Escrivá was visited by a new vision of Catholic spirituality: a movement of pious laypeople who would, by prayerful contemplation and the dedication of their labor to Christ, extend the holiness of church on Sunday into their everyday work life. Escrivá's title for the movement was a literal description--Opus Dei means "the work of God"--and his ambition was correspondingly large. He saw Opus eventually acting as "an intravenous injection [of holiness] in the bloodstream of society...
...Pentagon wasn't keen about your office when Congress created it. Has that changed? It is by definition a joint exercise. I think it works well. I don't see how the relationship could be better, and I think the division of labor is very clearly understood...