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When former Harvard Business School (HBS) Dean Kim B. Clark ’74 took over as President of Brigham Young University in Idaho (BYU-Idaho), he brought over a new vision for the Mormon school. Now, he’s also bringing over an entire library: BYU-Idaho has been using case studies from Clark’s alma mater since January, and is the first university to be given a site license for all of HBS’s electronic materials. “BYU is a first mover in this, because of Kim Clark?...
...precarious position of constantly making delicate value judgments. Not surprisingly, the State Board of Education opposed the law for this very reason. Ultimately, we recognize the community’s interests in inculcating its children with certain values and norms, even in an extremely conservative state like Mormon-dominated Utah. Yet we firmly believe that the primary role of the school must be to provide a forum for intellectual exploration and freedom of inquiry. Educational institutions must, first and foremost, foster discussion and engagement with a variety of perspectives—both in the classroom and through extracurricular activity...
...Romney raised $6.5 million on a single National Call Day in early January. The campaign is flush enough to be on the air at this early date with ads to introduce Romney to voters as a "business legend" who "rescued the Olympics" and "turned around a Democratic state." The Mormon in the race also points out - jokingly, but with an edge - that he is the only leading contender who is still with his first wife...
Alex Castellanos, the senior adviser to Romney’s campaign fielded several questions about his candidate’s religion—the former Massachusetts governor is a Mormon...
...perfectly normal. Eccentricity can play as badly on the campaign trail as vice. If Obama has any weird habits along with his unhealthy one, now is the time to chuck them. The ideal candidate in the age of no offense might be the abstemious Mitt Romney--except that his Mormon faith, even though it is 177 years old and made in America, puzzles Evangelicals and liberals...