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...sect follows the original fundamental teachings of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, which include the practice of polygamy. The Salt Lake City-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints left polygamy behind in 1890 and now excommunicates members who practice...
...borrowed $250 from family members to start Infosys, today a $23 billion outsourcing giant and India's second-largest software company. Murthy, whose personal fortune is estimated at $1.2 billion, is leaving after reaching the firm's mandatory retirement age but will continue to serve as nonexecutive chairman. DIED. Joseph Hill, 57, socially conscious reggae guru who became one of the genre's first prominent voices; after falling ill while on a European tour; in Berlin. In the 1970s his foreboding, heavily percussive "roots-reggae" won fans, among them British punk rockers and Virgin chief Richard Branson...
...DIED. Joseph Hill, 57, socially conscious reggae guru who became one of the genre's first prominent voices; after falling ill while on a European tour; in Berlin. In the 1970s his foreboding, heavily percussive "roots-reggae" won fans, among them British punk rockers and Virgin chief Richard Branson, who in 1978 signed Culture--the band Hill fronted for 30 years until his death--to Virgin's new reggae label, Front Line...
...didn't take long. Even before the Democratic Republic of Congo's electoral commission announced the interim results of the country's first free vote in more than 40 years Sunday night, fighting had broken out in Kinshasa, the mouldering capital on the Congo River. Supporters of President Joseph Kabila clashed with backers of former warlord and current vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba, who accused Kabila's Republican Guard of attacking its headquarters. Earlier, young men angry with Kabila's success hurled insults and rocks at patrolling policemen. "If you want war," they shouted, according...
...often that one is confronted with mortality in such stark terms. I recently lost my father and then became a grandfather within a month of his passing. Time is so fleeting and so precious. I pray Kinsley has a speedy recovery. Joseph Bichler Grand Rapids, Michigan...