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...Children fathered by Brigham Young, legendary 19th century president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
...present, the population of China is approximately 1,250,000,000 and the number of Mormons worldwide is a mere 10,500,000. Assume, however, that China's communist cadres continue their country's policy of zero population growth while The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints keeps garnering converts and encouraging large families to the tune of, say, five percent expansion a year. By 2099, Mormons will outnumber Chinese by a healthy margin of 65,012,578 men, women and children...
...before the blue light of the interior stuns the senses. Pronged triads of blue neon look as though they are pressing through the ceiling, their phosphorescence the kind we latently suspect of causing cancer. The boxes are mounted at eye level on brief supports, as though enshrined in a latter-day temple...
...some ways, Bridget resembles a latter-day version of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, caught as she is a picaresque series of adventures and winning goodwill from both other characters and readers by dint of sheer charisma (and some aid from Mark Darcy). Admittedly, those adventures include perhaps the weak point of the novel, when Bridget is framed for smuggling drugs in Thailand, which seems to be the excitement-and-terror locale du jour (see Brokedown Palace or The Beach). Out of urban London, Bridget's neuroticism seems hopelessly out of context: for all her moaning in her diary...
...Welcome to Campaign 2000, a time of unprecedented national prosperity in which the public doesn't want to rock the boat - or the vote. Bradley once fashioned himself a latter-day Eugene McCarthy, a liberal senator who'd inspire college-educated liberals into building a multiracial liberal platform. But this isn't 1968, and there's nothing dramatic like a war or a battle to desegregate the South to unite voters. Conservative candidates are facing the same plight: This isn't 1980 and the nation isn't inspired by recessions and military embarrassments. Hence there was no appetite for Steve...