Word: mormon
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Though Payne may still be a lowly student, his maturity is without question. After spending his freshman year of college at MCC in Arizona, Payne spent the next two years in Uruguay on a Mormon mission...
It’s more or less the typical Harvard story. You’ve heard it many times by now—student spends one year at Mesa Community College, two years in Uruguay on a Mormon mission, one more year at MCC, transfers to Harvard junior year, marries during summer between junior and senior year...
...only comfort for Democrats is that out-of-power parties won big in the 2002 governors races, leading to such bizarre spectacles as Democrats taking the governor's mansions in Wyoming and Oklahoma while Massachusetts elected a Mormon Republican businessman as governor. The Fletcher and Barbour victories were part of a troubling wave for fiscally-challenged governors...
...false Magdalenes are removed. But it fulfills a deep narrative expectation: for the alpha male to take a mate, for a yin to Jesus' yang or, as some neopagans have suggested, for a goddess to his god. Martin Luther believed that Jesus and Magdalene were married, as did Mormon patriarch Brigham Young...
Oddly enough, Rollins wasn't happy. A Mormon with a deep philosophical streak, he saw Dell's morale suffering. "The company was in a bit of a slump, the stock was down, sales on a plateau, so I began looking at ways to improve the culture to weather the down currents," Rollins says. Two years ago he launched the Soul of Dell initiative, setting out company ethics and ideals as a way of improving morale. "We got wealthy. That was our culture," he says bluntly. "But we didn't want just that." Dell had to be an inspiration...