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...Polygamy was the norm in Carolyn Jessop's life. After all, her own father had three wives by the time she was in fourth grade. Her family was part of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), a radical offshoot of the Mormon Church. But Jessop's own experience in the cult was so disturbing that she ran away with her eight children four years ago. Last month, the FLDS was in the news when its leader, Warren Jeffs, was found guilty of being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Polygamy Survivor Carolyn Jessop | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

...except Hartnett, always the provincial braveheart. The screenwriters make a few pitiful attempts to provide Harnett with opportunities for grade-A Hollywood heroism: When the vampires use a young girl as bait to lure the survivors into the street, Hartnett rushes in with his axe at the ready and tries (unsuccessfully) to save the girl. Later, when the survivors sneak from one hiding place from another, Hartnett fends off the bloodthirsty villains with a UV lamp his grandmother used to grow weed (for medical purposes, of course...

Author: By Anjali Motgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 30 Days of Night | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

...executive chairman, Michael Grade, a former chairman of the BBC, said: "I've never been involved in anything as grisly as this or anything that's damaged broadcasting as much as this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beleaguered BBC Slashes Jobs | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...cross. But Kouchner exaggerates when he claims that this technology would give Tehran "de facto military nuclear capacity"; it simply gives Iran an important piece of nuclear infrastructure that is allowed under the NPT but could, if Iran pulled out of the NPT, be used to create weapons-grade materiel. While the demand that Iran suspend enrichment until it has answered the IAEA's questions enjoys broad support, the demand that Iran be denied the right to enrichment because it is a regime not trusted by the West is a much tougher sell. And Russia isn't necessarily buying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Point of Putin's Tehran Trip | 10/15/2007 | See Source »

...their new neighbor. I am a little stunned to see almost every person that I am related to on earth sitting here in the first four rows. And I would like to offer a special greeting of my own to my teachers who are here—teachers from grade school, high school, college and graduate school—teachers, who taught me to love learning and the institutions that nurture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faust Inauguration Speech: 'Unleashing Our Most Ambitious Imaginings' | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

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