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...must admit, I can't imagine anything more awful than polygamy.' MITT ROMNEY, the Mormon Republican U.S. presidential candidate, whose great-grandfather was a polygamist...
...closest he has ever come to a personal religious crisis, he recalls, was when he was in college and considering whether to go off on a mission, as his grandfather, father and brother had done. Mitt was deeply in love with Ann, his high school sweetheart and future wife, and couldn't bear to spend more than two years away from her. He says he also felt guilty about the draft deferment he would get for it, when other young men his age were heading for Vietnam. In the end, it was Ann - a convert to Mormonism from having been...
...Being Mormon made the family unusual in tony Bloomfield Hills, though Mitt doesn't remember anything that felt like ostracism at his élite prep school, Cranbrook. (Then again, he was the Governor's son.) "My faith was not a burden to me. I didn't smoke and I didn't drink, and that was about it" in distinguishing him from his classmates socially, he says. "I think it's a helpful thing for the development of the character of a young person to be different from their peers. It's a blessing to be different and stand...
...After his return and his graduation from college, Mitt and his father didn't see eye to eye on what he should do next. George argued for law school; Mitt wanted to go to business school. So he pursued both degrees simultaneously at Harvard. Romney would immediately put that business degree to spectacularly successful use. But whereas his father had been an industrialist, staking his fortunes on what he produced, Mitt moved first into consulting and then into venture capitalism - a field in which, says his former partner and current campaign chairman Bob White, "you need to be able...
...Advisers to Giuliani's leading opponents, John McCain and Mitt Romney, say the influence of the big states is overrated; that with so many candidates chasing votes in so many places, the influence of the first states will actually be magnified, not diminished. And they believe that the Republican party is, at its core, pro-life - no matter how many "big tent" speeches delegates have endured at recent G.O.P. conventions...