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...more subtle, a product of centuries of legal evolution. It gets to the very heart of America's identity, for it is about a clashing of rights and responsibilities: Should Christian Scientist parents be allowed, on religious grounds, to reject medical treatment for a dying child? Should Mormon parents be allowed to claim a tax deduction for the money they spend sending their children out as missionaries? Like so many other issues -- abortion, the right to die, the right to bear arms -- the issue of religion's place in American life is at once deeply personal and yet highly public...
Bucking its Mormon, conservative traditions last week, Salt Lake City made Deedee Corradini, a Lebanese-born Presbyterian, its first woman mayor. Corradini, who had never held office before, scored a 55% to 45% victory over Republican Dave Buhler, director of Utah's Department of Commerce. Gender was never an issue in the campaign, where crime and pocketbook concerns prevailed. And Corradini worked so hard to keep the race nonpartisan that when state Republicans held their convention a few months ago, she set up a booth among them to attract support. The mayor-elect's female supporters couldn't help crowing...
...Mormons' proselytizing tradition has made Utah attractive to companies in the U.S. and abroad. Each year the church sends out thousands of young men (and some women) to live abroad and preach the Mormon word -- in the local language. As a result, Utah has a disproportionately high number of people who are fluent in foreign languages, a prime selling point in the global marketplace. Compeq, a Taiwan-based computer-board maker, decided to open its first overseas plant in Utah in part because its managers knew Utah has hundreds of Mormon missionaries familiar with their country's culture and language...
Short of summoning the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to belt out the Horst Wessel Song in the Hollywood Bowl, the museum has spared no efforts to sample the culture of the time as vividly as possible for an audience to whom the Third Reich is, at most, a remote and unwelcome memory. And the catalog, with its essays by Barron and other hands, German scholars as well as American ones, is certain to remain the definitive study of Nazi cultural repression for many years to come...
This man has the stats. He has the moves, the wardrobe and the attitude too, but he has those numbers cold. Hear him: "Currently we're on a 60-city tour, selling out everywhere, including Salt Lake City in Mormon country. Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em is one of the few albums since Thriller to hold the No. 1 in Billboard -- No. 1 pop, No. 1 black album at the same time. It's the biggest selling album of this year, bar any -- rock 'n' roll, pop, blues, toe tappin', whatever it is. We went out and sold...