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...Prime Minister had spent a week in the public eye and held a series of meetings with visiting foreign leaders, the contrast with his predecessor was vivid. While Palme often dazzled his listeners with his rhetorical brilliance, Carlsson's speeches tended to be as wooden as Swedish birch. And while Palme could be arrogant and abrasive, Carlsson seemed cautious and conciliatory, more given to self-deprecation than grand gestures...
...sale of historical documents that cast doubts on official teachings about the origins of the Book of Mormon. Some Mormons are also anxious about the intentions of Benson, the 13th Prophet-President. A wavemaking, pepper-tongued right-winger, Benson acquired some notoriety in the 1960s for praising the John Birch Society and calling the civil rights movement Communist influenced. Other Benson targets: the U.N., the Supreme Court and disarmament negotiations with the Soviets. Speaking at the church-run Brigham Young University in 1980, Benson asserted that the Prophet-President speaks authoritatively on civil as well as religious matters, and that...
...STANLEY BIRCH, a conservative judge in Atlanta's federal appeals court, rebuking the President and Congress for behaving like "activist judges" in intervening in the Terri Schiavo case
...eats warmed-over pizza and watches the 11 o’clock news with his dad. “BIRCH RUN 40, GARBER 37” flashes on the screen. The kid frowns. “I’ll be back later,” he mumbles...
...inheritance rights and Social Security survivor's benefits. That's one reason the consolation prize of civil unions is unsatisfying to gay activists, unless it comes with a document that opens the same doors as a marriage license. "Call it, perhaps, a marriage, family and partnership license," says Elizabeth Birch, a former executive director of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay-rights organization...