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This is part of the faith of Opus Dei, a Catholic lay group founded in 1928 by Josemaría Escriva, now a canonized saint. Escriva’s purpose was to promote what Opus Dei terms a “universal call to holiness” that would allow for the “sanctification of work” in everyday life—essentially, to make saintliness more accessible to ordinary people...
...area. More horror was to come: refugee camps everywhere and, eventually, war with Pakistan over Kashmir, an enmity, potent as nuclear bombs, that lasts to this day. Five months after independence, the idealism of the struggle for freedom was shattered when a Hindu fanatic assassinated the movement's secular saint, Mohandas Gandhi. --By Howard Chua-Eoan
...steadily up the Army's often unglamorous promotional ladder, serving in Texas, Korea, Germany and the Pentagon, and eventually earning two degrees. He won a reputation early on as an innovator in combat arms, serving in the few Army units that in those days encouraged experimentation. Retired General Crosbie Saint, who served with Franks in one of those outfits, the 1st Armored Cavalry Division, told TIME that Franks practically invented the idea of using long-range artillery against moving tanks, a tactic that is sure to come into play in the coming days...
...still a junior officer, he landed jobs under men who would go on to join the Army's most exclusive club: that of four-star generals. There are only nine in the Army, but it was Franks' good fortune to serve under an unusually large number of them, including Saint, U.S. forces Korea boss John Tilelli and former Army Chief of Staff Gordon Sullivan. "There are a lot of young colonels who never get noticed," says retired Lieut. General Richard Lawrence, under whom Franks served twice. "Tommy had the benefit of people who went on to much higher ranks...
...have nothing against Harvard. Harvard could be a saint for Charlesview,” Anzalone said. “But until we sit in on these meetings, we have to think of them...