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...then principal at her private church school, the Alta Academy, in Salt Lake City. He had been a top student, something of a computer geek, who trained as an accountant and liked to sing and write songs. But he was a stern headmaster, canceling an annual snow-sculpture contest because it smacked of idolatry. Doe recalled his lessons about proper conduct. Girls and boys were to treat each other "as though they were snakes," she said. "There was nothing permitted romantically." Leaving the matchmaking up to the prophet "frees you completely from all the terrible mistakes girls can make," Jeffs...
...last 20 minutes to secure the win.HARVARD 2, HOLY CROSS 0When Harvard visited Holy Cross on Friday night, the tam knew it would be a tough game. The Crimson was able to shut out the Crusaders, 2-0, but the game was by no means a one-way contest.“It was a battle,” said Shapiro. “It was very back-and-forth, and it was a much closer game than it seems from the score.”At the end of the first period, both teams were scoreless despite Harvard?...
...HillRaiser," which is how the top financial "bundlers" for the Democratic front runner are described. Hsu, 56, raised an extraordinary $850,000 from 260 donors on her behalf. He is also a two-time fugitive from justice, who fled a 1992 California fraud conviction in which he pleaded no contest to conning investors out of $1 million to allegedly purchase and resell nonexistent latex gloves. Then earlier this month, he skipped out on $2 million bail and eluded state officials who tried to corral him after learning his whereabouts from press reports about his role in the Clinton campaign. Federal...
...that the absence of a consensus on Iraq between the U.S. and Iraq's neighbors is even more dangerous. Given the weakness of the central government in Iraq, stability there is unlikely without an agreement among Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey and Iran over managing the political contest there. The most powerful stakeholder among them is Iran, which has close ties to the dominant political parties returned by the Iraqi electorate. And as long as Iran believes the U.S. is pursuing a policy of regime-change in Tehran, it has little incentive to help out Washington...
...come. If he thinks that he can unconstitutionally and unlawfully abduct Nawaz Sharif and send him back to Jeddah [in Saudi Arabia], well, there are very serious ramifications which we will watch unfold in the coming days and weeks. It cannot happen that he can sidestep a political contest for presidential elections by cutting a deal with Benazir Bhutto, and sideline Nawaz Sharif and other parties. If Musharraf and his cronies were concerned with Sharif?s return, well, what Musharraf has done will not stop the end game, it will only lead to his removal from power. He should have...