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...Inside Opus Dei the daily activity revolves around frequent prayer and meditation, 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...
...denim form, in the sense that they are worn by hipsters and wildly uncomfortable. Unfortunately, those dastardly celebrities with their liposuction and voluntary colonoscopies have radically altered our conception of the ugly skinny jean. On Sienna Miller or Lindsay Lohan, the skinny jean is eminently flattering and does not remind one of a particularly scarring episode of “Miami Vice.” The pants look so good on these plastic women that one starts to think wild and crazy thoughts. “Even if one does not have the thighs of a newly born foal...
...Peppers play rock and roll dress-up, mimicking famous televised performances, from Elvis Presley’s early network appearances to Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged session, reaching a climax when the band appears as—surprise!—themselves. Unfortunately, all these changing costumes only remind us that the Chili Peppers have been stuck in the same musical-historical rut for the past 10 years. “Dani California” sounds like any of the flood of MTV-friendly, moderately funky, poppy singles that have come off of the band’s last...
...slip away while you nervously monitor how Cubs starter Carlos Zambrano is faring in his outing on the west coast—for fantasy baseball is of course the most powerful of procrastination tools, the lazy college student’s best friend and his mortal enemy—remind yourself that you are taking part in a rich intellectual, literary tradition that has deep roots in the Harvard community...
...Each time you feel like going shopping for Stetsons and cowboy boots. Remind yourself that they’d look ridiculous...