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...Clark, a devout Mormon who has served as dean for 10 years, abruptly announced his decision to resign on June 6, less than two weeks after he was asked by Gordon B. Hinkley, the president of the Mormon Church, to take the helm at BYU-Idaho...
...Philippines that peacefully brought down the presidencies of Ferdinand Marcos and, more recently, Joseph Estrada; of renal failure; in Manila. After Marcos called for and won a snap election in 1986 that was widely suspected to be fraudulent, Sin took to the airwaves, rallying the country of devout Catholics to join a military faction that had mutinied against Marcos. After a three-day standoff, Marcos fled. Sin stepped in again to help oust the corrupt Estrada in 2001. Famous for his humor--"Welcome to the House of Sin" was his greeting to houseguests--he responded to criticisms of his secular...
...prayer, to free their minds of negative thoughts toward their fellow men--except Americans and their Iraqi "infidel" supporters. There will be no TV or music, says Marwan, who will have to give up his one addiction, cigarettes. In many ways, these steps mirror the self-purification that devout Muslims undergo before embarking on the pilgrimage to Mecca. "You give up your previous life," he says, "and start...
...camera.) But the series is not strident, and seems to have been made in a genuine spirit of curiosity. Later episodes, in which Spurlock serves as host and does interviews, are mixed; anti-aging therapy is simply not as burning a social issue. But the Islam episode--a devout Christian moves in with a Muslim family--is fascinating, moving, funny and without a shred of manipulation...
Clark—a devout Mormon who has served as bishop, or lay leader of his congregation, in the Church—will leave HBS July 31, following a decade as the school’s top administrator...