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...adjacent houses, where they run the extended household jointly but harbor simmering jealousies. ("Officially," he tells Margene when she asks if he missed her, "I miss you guys all the same.") He has to keep the arrangement semisecret because polygamy is illegal in Utah and banned by the mainstream Mormon Church, or Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). Oh, and one of his fathers-in-law (Harry Dean Stanton), the patriarch of a fundamentalist polygamist compound, is shaking him down for a cut of his hardware business. The Osmond family these Utahans...
...instance, is about show business), Big Love is a surprising detour to the reddest of the red states. In the drama, which debuts in summer 2006, characters declare their faith as easily as those on Deadwood swear. Co-creators Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer, neither of whom is Mormon, say they were interested in the conflict within Bill, who came from a polygamist compound but now lives in the mainstream suburbs of Salt Lake City. The fundamentalists, says Olsen, see the LDS Church "as sellouts and apostates." Mainstream Mormons, he adds, "wish the compounds would go away...
...don’t assume that this girl from rural Vermont is a quiet leader. The “Stormin’ Mormon,” as her teammates nicknamed her freshman year, is making sure she and everyone else is pumped...
Clark, a devout Mormon, left HBS last year after receiving a phone call from Hinckley, who asked Clark if he would be interested in taking the helm of BYU-Idaho...
...small group of Harvard administrators and donors—including University President Lawrence H. Summers—gathered in Rexburg, Idaho yesterday to attend the inauguration of former Business School Dean Kim B. Clark '74 as chief of the town’s Mormon college...