Word: brighamism
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EchoHawk has always resisted typecasting. The son of a Pawnee father and a mother of German ancestry, he became a devout Mormon and attended Brigham Young University. After graduating from the University of Utah College of Law, he worked as a tribal lawyer for the Shoshoni. When he took over as attorney general in 1991, he angered many in that tribe and others by supporting a state constitutional amendment that banned casino-style gambling, an industry that many tribes depend on for their livelihoods. "I think that issue helped show the people of Idaho that I would do my duty...
This is the real tragedy of the concurrent sports strikes: we recognize and miss the faces in uniform; we don't even take note (nor have we ever) of the guy in the blue uniform who can yell "Ice cream, here! Brigham's!" across five aisles in Boston Garden and be heard loud and clear. He has got to be hurting more than anybody else by baseball's and hockey's absences...
...This technique could mean a major revolution in modern medicine," said Weiner, co-director of the Center for Neurologic Diseases at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston...
...order to be closer to his wife, Romney transferred to Brigham Young University and finished his undergraduate studies there...
...have had a very phenomenal response from women in the Boston and New England area," said Kate L. Kalan, clinic manager of the Vanguard Center at Brigham and Women's. "[We received] several thousand phone calls in the first few days of recruitment...