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Since its founding in 1928, Opus Dei has become the most controversial-and in many ways the most powerful-church organization in Spain since the Jesuits. With its 20,000 members, the Spanish branch is the largest and oldest of Opus Dei's 68 branches around the world...
...took the trial with amazing aplomb. Alva Dawson, 74, a retired deputy sheriff and the oldest member of the panel, rode an exercising bicycle in his spare time to keep fit and observed that he missed only one thing-the new piano he had been learning to play before the trial. William Zamora, 45, a state employee and sometime actor, plans to write a book called Sequestered, and his announced intention made the others leary of him. He became something of an outcast, spending much of his time in his room typing notes. Zamora claimed last week that his forthcoming...
...Harvard has made do with the oldest corporate structure in the western hemisphere," Kenneth R. Andrews, author of the report and David Professor of Business Administration, said yesterday...
...nation's oldest school of international affairs, Fletcher has a long his-tory of ties with the foreign policy establishment. It does work for the State Department, the Agency for International Development, and the U. S. Information Agency. Forty of the school's 225 graduate students are currently civilian or military employees of the U. S. government...
...AWARDS: Actors are the world's oldest underprivileged minority. For centuries we've been looked upon as nothing but buffoons, one step above thieves and charlatans. Those awards ceremonies simply compound the image for me. A lot of people sitting around making an exhibition of themselves. What I hate is that whole superstructure and the phony suspense and the crying actor clutching the statue to his bosom and all of that crap. It's all such a bloody bore...