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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...
...hundreds of thousands of Harvard affiliates, provided the first public insight into what the nine-person body is looking for as it launches the University’s second presidential search in less than a decade. The committee’s choice of Summers in 2001 proved to be unpopular with some members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, leading to his resignation in February. “We will, of course, be seeking a person of high intellectual distinction, with proven qualities of leadership, a devotion to excellence in education and research, a capacity to guide a complex...
...also suffering fallout from the tarnished image of former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who took a €250,000 job with a subsidiary of the Russian giant Gazprom shortly after leaving office, raising questions about his judgement; and because its ministers have been associated with unpopular government pronouncements. Wolfgang Thierse, a veteran spd deputy and vice president of the Bundestag, says his party recognizes that "the fat years are over and things won't improve without a big sacrifice." But he adds that the cdu needs to shoulder more of the burden of introducing controversial policies. One reason...
...passionate but defensive 20-minute speech, Shays delivered, all at once, an apology for and a justification of his strong support for the war in Iraq, which, as in so many other parts of the country, is now very unpopular in Connecticut. "President Bush didn't lie. He was wrong, I was wrong about Saddam having weapons of mass destruction," he said, while noting that a long list of other countries thought Iraq had WMD. And he was critical of some of Bush's decisions: "We made a huge mistake when we disbanded their army, their police force, their border...
...quarterback Heath Schuler has added star power to the race in a North Carolina district. Incumbent Charles Taylor is on the defense there with claims that an electronic glitch prevented him from casting his vote against the Central American Free Trade Agreement, which Bush had sought but is unpopular among Taylor's constituents, who believe it will cost the state jobs...