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Critics and state officials say the reason so many young men are expelled is not because they are failing to meet priestly standards, but for darker reasons: to winnow the bachelor pool so the group's leadership can add more young wives to their families. "No matter what happens to Jeffs, there's going to be a huge problem with little girls marrying old men, and huge problems with kicking boys out so they can marry these little girls," Tyler said. [Adults are exiled too. A year before Smith was expelled, his father was "kicked out" and his mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Exiled Children of Utah | 9/24/2007 | See Source »

...comparison shopping—sans the shortcuts of Crimson Reading and taking notes at the Coop—then you must pay a small sum extra. Life is about trade-offs: It is selfish and often unreasonable to expect that you can have everything. And in a comparatively menial matter as shopping for course books, such self-righteous indignation seems simply silly...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: Flying the Coop | 9/23/2007 | See Source »

...College administration, meanwhile, has decided to wash their hands of the matter. Last April, the Undergraduate Council proposed a Harvard College Book Information System to the Committee on Undergraduate Education, which promptly shut it down. According to former Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, speaking to The Crimson last spring, “I didn’t think that I could financially support an effort that was in some ways in opposition to the Harvard Coop.” This near-fetishistic protectionism, which the new College administration apparently still espouses, is befuddling...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Uncooperative | 9/23/2007 | See Source »

...says. “We’re not starting a lot of guys that we didn’t last year. With the loss [to Holy Cross] with an experienced group, we know the defense, we know what we did wrong. Now it’s just a matter of adjusting, fixing those schematic problems...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FOOTBALL '07: Defending Their Honor | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

...one’s sure what they can do, in fact, but the ability is surely there in a receiving corps as deep as the Ivy League has seen in years. If the talent on paper can translate to on-field success, then it won’t matter who’s No. 1, who’s No. 4, and who’s in between on the depth chart...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FOOTBALL '07: Harvard’s Fearsome Foursome | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

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