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...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 this. I wrote a letter to the prelate of Opus Dei. You make a verbal commitment. You don't take vows. Nothing else changes in your life necessarily. This is a commitment between you and God. So you do your ordinary work but you offer it up to God and give it a divine meaning...
...Considering past speakers, we were under the impression it would be someone with a recognizable social commitment,” said UPenn Senior Class President Pierre Gooding. At Yale, where graduates will hear a commencement speech from news anchor and Yale alumnus Anderson Cooper, one writer headlined a letter about Cooper’s selection to the Yale Daily News, “College fell short with speaker choice.” And Stanford senior Paul S. Wright wrote in an e-mail of his school’s selection of news anchor Tom Brokaw, “I think...
...skaters celebrate a national championship. Who knows? The sky is most definitely the limit for these unknown, but obviously talented, recruits.How about football, a sport in which recruiting is as highly publicized nationally as any other? Some 250-pound 17-year-old who has just recently received his acceptance letter could become the cornerstone of a dominant Ivy championship squad in 2009. Why, just three years ago, junior Clifton Dawson was a redshirt freshman at Northwestern University; now, he is the most prolific running back ever to have worn Crimson.In the not-too-distant past, the stars of the swimming...
...affecting. She has a limited vocal range, but her voice is so richly evocative that it hardly matters. “Bitter Tea” is such a thoroughly enjoyable album I’m inclined to ignore its pretensions and just rock out. Maybe that letter in the press packet was a joke—a little something to ruffle the feathers of overly analytical rock critics. I certainly hope so. I’d really like to enjoy this record without the taste of bile in my mouth. —Reviewer Bernard L. Parham can be reached...
...Viswanathan is hardly the first to point out that such children exist. After David Brooks coined the term, former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 wrote his “Slow Down” letter as an attack on the same kind of thing. The popular press caught on almost as quickly, overworking the “College Admissions Game Getting Harder to Win” angle until phrases like “extracurricular activities” and “unweighted grade point average” became household terms...