Word: mormonized
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...substance of private beliefs off-limits? You can ask if a candidate believes in school vouchers and vote for someone else if you disagree with the answer. But can you ask if he believes that the Garden of Eden was located in Jackson County, Mo., as the Mormon founder taught, and vote against him on the grounds of that answer? Or, for that matter, because of the kind of underwear he wears...
...Crimson might want to consider caution in its use of identifiers. A story states (“Professors Shower Cash on Obama,” news, Apr. 18), “Romney also received $2,300 from Cizik Professor of Business Administration Clayton M. Christensen, a fellow Mormon. Mitt Romney has raised significant funds in the Mormon community, taking in $2.9 million from Utah—a state that is 60 percent Mormon and not usually considered a top source of political dollars.” This reference is striking because of the lack of any comparable identifiers for other...
...Lawrence university professor, gave $2,300 to Romney. Porter is the co-founder of the Monitor Group, a Cambridge-based consulting firm, while Romney formerly led Boston-based consulting firm Bain & Company. Romney also received $2,300 from Cizik Professor of Business Administration Clayton M. Christensen, a fellow Mormon. Romney has raised significant funds in the Mormon community, taking in $2.9 million from Utah—a state that is 60 percent Mormon and not usually considered a top source of political dollars. —Staff writer Paras D. Bhayani can be reached at pbhayani@fas.harvard.edu.for the primary...
...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...
...shredder this year. Come summer of 2008, one or both parties will likely fire it from a confetti gun. A million fluttery pieces of conventional wisdom will swirl around a nominee or nominees once thought to be impossible: a woman, a black man, a guy in his 70s, a Mormon, a Hispanic, a Baptist preacher who used to be 100 lbs. overweight. Who knows? This is the year to bet on something unusual happening, and few things in politics are more unusual than Rudolph Giuliani - "America's mayor," the rock of 9/11, crime fighter and tax cutter...