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Although he was raised in the Mormon Church--which preaches eschewing alcohol and caffeine--Romney enjoyed partying, say his friends...
...coverage, none of the part-time employees at Staples, the successful office-supplies chain that Romney helped establish, receive such coverage from the company. (Then again, part-timers usually don't.) Last week Kennedy even introduced religion into the race, demanding to know if Romney, a member of the Mormon Church, supported church policies that until 1978 excluded black men from serving as priests. Romney quickly reminded voters how the Democrat's brother had to fend off questions about his Catholicism during his run for the presidency...
Others are more eager to mix traditional religion with digital transmission: the Jewish orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch sect eagerly provides translations of theological works (gopher site: lubavitch.chabad. org/1) over the Net. Cyberspace's devoted may also download the King James Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Koran and bits from the Dead Sea Scrolls. A Catholic University site offers a database with lyrics to the millennium's most popular -- and currently chart-topping -- Gregorian chants (http://gopher://vmsgopher.cua.edu...
...Gary's final months of life in his 1979 fact-based novel The Executioner's Song, which won the Pulitzer Prize. Shot in the Heart is a more personal story, as Mikal Gilmore searches for insight into the origin of evil by examining his family -- his mother's shattered Mormon faith, his father's secret criminal past. Both Gilmore parents, haunted by their past, took their frustrations out on their children, dooming them to lives of anger and abuse as well. Mikal quotes Gary as saying, "My father was the first person I ever wanted to murder...
...spite of a gerontocracy, the Mormon Church thrives...