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...want to." Smyczek joined Opus Dei at age 24 when he was working as a professional engineer, driven by the feeling, he said, "that there's got to be more to life than this. I wrote a letter to the prelate of Opus Dei. You make a verbal commitment. You don't take vows. Nothing else changes in your life necessarily. This is a commitment between you and God. So you do your ordinary work but you offer it up to God and give it a divine meaning." Clearly there is a quiet evangelism built into the functioning of Opus...
...stems from the arrangement used instead of the letter of intent. This system relies on what is known as a “likely letter”—a one-way written commitment, mailed by deans of admission to high school seniors who have already made a verbal commitment to a coach. The letter, which can be mailed at almost any date, confirms that the athletes are likely to be admitted come April. But Jeff Orleans, the executive director of the Ivy League, confessed to me that he believes the NCAA letter of intent fosters greater integrity, honesty...
...problems stem from the fact that likely letters are generated based on a spoken commitment exchanged by coaches and athletes. Though the majority of Ivy recruits keep their word, some players and parents make multiple verbal commitments, often because coaches pressure them to make a decision prematurely. This pressure leads to all sorts of dirty gamesmanship between schools. For instance, some coaches offer likely letters with an arbitrary deadline in order to force a decision from an athlete or only if a player cancels an official visit or withdraws an application to another school. Other coaches ignore verbal commitments altogether...
...it’s a ready-made social network for the anti-social, a way to keep in touch for the lazy. Why do you think email, text messaging, and AOL Instant Messenger have become so popular? We care about people, but if we have a choice between verbal and nonverbal communication with them, nonverbal wins. So I “Facebooked” the girl. After logging onto Facebook.com, I entered “Harvard, traveling, girl” into the search engine. 108 profiles appeared. But while scanning the pictures, hoping that her Facebook photo would bear...
...spot for the May runoff. Ever since victims of Hurricane Katrina languished for days at the Superdome without food, water or buses to evacuate, politicians from the Louisiana statehouse to the White House have seen their poll numbers slump to new lows. Nagin, who took the brunt of verbal abuse from evacuees, tried to win them back in January by championing New Orleans as a "chocolate city" - a comment that he admits "soured" his rapport with white voters who got him elected four years ago. Now, however, he?s finding electoral solace in the city?s African-American community...