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Your article "The drive for a new Utah" [OLYMPIC PREVIEW, Feb. 11] brilliantly captured the state's extreme social and political dynamic. As a nonpracticing member of a Mormon family with a long pioneer heritage, I've been on both sides of the Mormon-non-Mormon divide in Utah. Since returning to the D.C. area, however, I find myself explaining, more often than I'd like, a religion I do not believe in. Now when confronted with such questions as "How many wives does your father have?" I will simply refer people to your exceptional article and save myself...
...Computer pioneer Norbert Wiener once advised, "Render unto man the things which are man's and unto the computer the things which are the computer's." As the experiences of people like Stelarc, Brian Holgersen and Marie show, it's becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference...
...second game was similar to the first, as the Crimson and the Pioneers battled to a 24-24 tie before freshman outside hitter Juan Ramos tricked the Sacred Heart defense, tapping the ball over the heads of the Pioneer blockers leaping at the net to put the Crimson up 25-24. Consecutive blocks by Denham gave Harvard its 27th and 28th points, and kills by Ramos and sophomore opposite Russ Mosier sealed the 30-24 victory...
...result, Barnaby was a strong supporter of the development of professional squash in the ’70s and the formation of the World Professional Squash Association. He was also a pioneer in developing a system for the certification of squash pros...
...frantic social life among the glitterati continued to the end. But De Salvo wanted to avoid "fetishizing the celebrity persona at the expense of looking at the work," preferring to present him as any other painter. Warhol, Pop Art pioneer, didn't live to see his prediction about fame come horribly true. He died unexpectedly in 1987 following a gall-bladder operation - in a hospital. He claimed his work was all surface and described himself as "deeply superficial." But somehow he raised shallowness to new heights...