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...look of other compounds built by apocalyptic cults led by charismatic tyrants. But this is a group with a tangled history many generations deep. Renegade sects have kept polygamy alive by settling far from neighbors in places like the desert canyon lands of Utah and Arizona, the villages of northern Mexico and the alpine valleys of western Canada. They have intermarried and interbred to the point that, in the words of author Jon Krakauer, their "relationships are almost impossible to make sense of without a flowchart." One figure in Krakauer's best-selling history of the sects, Under the Banner...
...seat ballroom at the downtown Indianapolis Marriott to the city's convention center, where she expects more than 2,500 people will attend. In the last week, more than 1,000 new donations have come through the committee's website, many from Hamilton County, the affluent, Republican-dominated northern Indianapolis suburb where Obama has been campaigning fiercely. Given the new donations, she says, "There's going to be a lot of switchover voters, and that's been bit of a hot topic...
After weeks of arduous road trips and non-stop action in pools across the Eastern and Western seaboards, the Harvard women’s water polo team prepared to play in possibly its last games of the season during the Northern Championships.The Crimson faced the daunting task of finishing in the top two spots to qualify for the Eastern Championships. To do that, Harvard had to do something it hadn’t done all year—defeat either Hartwick or Brown to get into the final.The Crimson dropped two matches to Hartwick and Brown consecutively before rebounding...
Parma, a picturesque city in Northern Italy, is the home of Parmigianino Reggiano cheese, Prosciutto ham, and Barilla pasta. Lately, however, this food-famous city has also become the home of another, more foreign, specialty—Harvard football alums.Three recent Crimson graduates, Corey Mazza ’08, Danny Brown ’07, and former captain Ryan Tully ’07, are now playing in the Italian Football League (IFL) with the Parma Panthers. “We’re having a good time over here, and [I’m] just getting to do what...
...away eight 6-on-5 opportunities. Four of these ejections were drawn by junior Devon MacLaughlin, who also scored one of the Crimson’s two goals. Harvard co-captain Vivian Liao earned the other on a penalty shot. The Crimson will next be in action at the Northern Championships on Saturday. The team will travel to Utica, N.Y. for the competition...