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...most wicked men on the face of the earth since the days of Father Adam." Those words, spoken by polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, were recorded in a jailhouse phone conversation over year ago. On tape, he renounced his leadership of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, the breakaway Mormon sect whose latest run-in with the law saw hundreds of women and children rounded up by authorities in Eldorado, Texas...
...enforcement to Texas officials to help with their case against the Eldorado polygamists. As for Jessop's prestige, his portrait can be found hanging in some FLDS homes, though perhaps not as ubiquitous as Jeffs's. In his recantation, Jeffs described Jessop as "the true keyholder appointed by his father." Brower, who believes Jeffs is "a deviant," says Jessop is "less twisted...
...been that way since Jeffs assumed the leadership and the title Prophet in 2002 from his father, the 92-year-old Rulon Jeffs. Previous "Prophets" had emerged from among the so-called worthy men who led the FLDS, but with Warren Jeffs the leadership passed from father to son. The community soon found Warren was a strict enforcer of teaching, expelling members, confiscating property and reassigning wives - he took his father's 22 wives as his own. Named to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, he traveled with bodyguards who delivered his exile messages and helped...
...resume reflects, is a driven man, and he promises to take his can-do-better attitude to Capitol Hill. "That's not just political bullshit," Shulman laughs, "it really is the theme of the way I think about myself as a psychotherapist, a rabbi, a teacher, a father, and as a blind person." Win or lose, Shulman, who runs a Sabbath morning discussion group at his synagogue (currently they're dissecting the Book of Job), views entering the political race as an ethical imperative. He often frames issues such as universal healthcare and energy policy in moral terms, and adopts...
Considered by many the father of modern cardiac surgery, Dr. Michael DeBakey pioneered techniques and devices that revolutionized his field, and still persist today. In 1932, while in medical school, DeBakey invented a pump that became a critical part of machines that later enabled open-heart surgery. He was one of the first to recognize the link between smoking and lung cancer, and he performed the first successful coronary bypass. An adamant perfectionist, DeBakey also provided medical advice to some of the most influential leaders of the 20th century, including President John F. Kennedy and Russian leader Boris Yeltsin...