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Opus Dei is not a kind of spiritual pick-me-up for casual Catholics. It features a small, committed membership (85,500 worldwide and a mere 3,000 in the U.S.), many of whom come from pious families and are prepared to embrace unpopular church teachings such as its birth-control ban. Members take part in a rigorous course of spiritual "formation" stressing church doctrine and contemplation plus Escrivá's philosophy of work and personal holiness. Opus' core is its "numeraries," the 20% who, despite remaining lay, pledge celibacy, live together in one of about 1,700 sex-segregated "centers...
Still feeling tired from all that serotonin still kicking around in your bloodstream? Then try out this pick-me-up to make sure you’re awake all night this weekend...
...massive crush on Knightley, or just really needs a good date idea, will find “Pride & Prejudice” a treat of a period piece. The exquisitely beautiful adaptation captures Austen’s conviction as to the possibility of romance in the most unlikely circumstances, a pick-me-up everyone can appreciate. —Staff writer Kristina M. Moore can be reached at moore2@fas.harvard.edu...
...when she was convicted of perjury last week for lying to a grand jury about a 2001 shoot-out involving her manager and another friend. She's got to be frontin'. The risqué rapper, whose star has tarnished a bit in recent years, is facing the ultimate show-biz pick-me-up: jail time. What's more, it's for protecting her crew with a completely hopeless lie. She said she didn't see the men at the scene of the crime, even though a security camera had footage of one of them holding an elevator door...
...From Dalhart to Del Rio and out El Paso way, well I’ll be doin’ fine on Houston time,” sings the songwriter/country singer Pat Green in the pick-me-up song “I Like Texas...