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...sociologist at a local Catholic university. That's just what soured voters on his first term: prosperity that did not seem to reach enough people. The problem is a trickle-down economic and political system that is still evolving from the dark, authoritarian past of the Rafael Trujillo era that left mere crumbs for social expenditures. Forty-five years later, the economy has dramatically diversified from its plantation foundations of sugar and coffee...
...controversial almost from birth. Opus threatened the era's Catholic clericalism, which privileged priests, monks and nuns over the laity, and Escrivá was called a heretic. In the 1950s, several prominent Opus Dei members joined Franco's dictatorial but church-supportive regime in Spain, inaugurating speculation about the group's political leanings. The church's Second Vatican Council (1962-65) seemed to catch up with Escrivá's idea of lay activism--but his rigid adherence to Catholic teaching put his system at odds with liberals who accorded the laity a wide freedom of conscience. He himself was a polarizing figure...
...George Herbert Walker Bush. Rumsfeld organized his pals into an informal club and served four terms before leaping to the Nixon White House. There he rose through various mid-level posts and became, within four years, NATO ambassador. He was always unconventional; even in the depths of that partisan era, he maintained a close friendship with Allard Lowenstein, the famed liberal organizer. Rumsfeld took Lowenstein to Republican conventions; Lowenstein returned the favor...
...Army Secretary Thomas White, a former Enron executive who vainly tried to thwart Rumsfeld's decision to kill the Crusader, was one more mistake away from losing his job. "It's pretty clear that the Army is going to be the big loser," says Lawrence Korb, a top Reagan-era Pentagon aide. "If it were not for the war in Afghanistan and the looming war in Iraq, I'm sure they would already be cutting two Army divisions...
...focus on the past—“there is no silence in radio,†one points out—and that in the future lingers uncertainly. At the same time, the audience sympathizes with the outdated variety show, and its closing, the end of an era, implies that something wonderful is really being lost. “It’s a very nice tension between saying go forward into the future…and also looking back, the tension of what’s lovely and needs to be preserved,†Streep says...