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...computer-chip makers and software firms, and growth in tourism and business services. Tech companies such as Intel and Provo-based Novell draw on Utah's young, educated work force. This creeping diversity isn't only commercial: in August a Hindu temple opened in South Jordan, which is 75% Mormon...
SENTENCED. TOM GREEN, 53, brash Mormon Fundamentalist with five wives and 30 children; to five years in prison and repayment of $78,000 in state welfare checks; in Provo, Utah...
...journalist turned publishing executive, David got his entrepreneurial drive from his grandfather, who opened what Neeleman pere claims was the country's first convenience store, on South Street in Salt Lake City. David certainly learned frugality: of the $3,000 his parents sent him during his year on a Mormon mission in Brazil, he saved $1,300. He has retained that trait. He gets around New York City by subway...
...doubtful about the impact of our own words. We also know, sadly, that alcohol addiction has a genetic component and runs in families, placing our children at special risk and mandating that dread discussion on the porch. If only the talk could be fobbed off on a doctor (a Mormon doctor, ideally) or someone else with the authority to speak. We former drinkers believe we have no moral authority--though unlike most parents, we know that we don't. We're walking worst-case scenarios...
...LaBute is the genial Mormon, 38, who raises critics' spirits and audiences' hackles with dramatic essays in cruelty. His 1997 movie In the Company of Men had a suavely evil fellow concoct a scheme to seduce and then abandon an innocent deaf woman. "Let's do it," he says to a pal. "Let's hurt somebody." In Your Friends and Neighbors, six yuppies snipe at each other in bed and on every other battlefield. In Bash: Latterday Plays, which appeared off-Broadway and, last year, at the Almeida, nice people confess the most dreadful crimes, in tones so numb they...