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...responsible for 14 wards with a total of some 3,000 members. Women cannot serve in priestly roles, nor could African Americans until a new revelation brought a change of policy in 1978. Should Romney have to account for such church practices? When he married Ann, a Mormon convert, in 1969 in the temple in Salt Lake City, her family could not attend the ceremony since only Mormons are allowed inside. A separate ceremony was held for "gentiles," as non- Mormons are called...
Conservative Christians don't much like the idea that the Bible is corrupted or that its truths could be updated. The conflicts run deep enough that in 2001 the Vatican ruled Mormon baptisms invalid, and even the more liberal Presbyterians and United Methodists require that Mormons looking to convert be rebaptized. Southern Baptists have called Utah "a stronghold of Satan," and there are many bookshelves' worth of anti-Mormon literature in circulation. The church's aggressive missionary work is a particular challenge to other professing churches, which believe that converts to Mormonism are not truly saved...
...getting East and West to cooperate in saving the animal. The $4 million that four U.S. zoos contribute annually to saving the pandas' habitat is a piddling amount compared with the need, but China has responded by pouring billions into a "Grain to Green" program designed to convert marginal mountainside farms back to forest. There is nothing to be gained by focusing on a few misguided efforts and ridiculing a program that has been highly successful overall...
...ensuing ball-drop to give the Crimson possession. The co-captain won 19 of 24 faceoffs on the day, including eight of eight in the fourth quarter.Holy Cross had one final opportunity when senior Brian Mahler turned the ball over with a minute remaining, but was unable to convert, giving the ball back to Harvard 10 seconds later. Senior midfielder Adam Mahfouda and sophomore defensemen Eric Posner each added goals in the final 30 seconds against a dejected Crusaders defense to round out the scoring.Despite the final score, the victory felt more like a step backwards for Anderson...
...involvement with the tour represents an honest effort to promote the international pastime that has become a summation of all that keeps us human: energy, emotion, honesty, and above all, “airness.”“I’m trying to convert people to the ways of air,” he says. “And it beats a day job.”—Staff writer Nayeli E. Rodriguez can be reached at nrodrig@fas.harvard.edu...