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...Hinckley, Mormons believe, is in direct contact with God and so presumably is party to the whole plot. Thus the faithful paid close attention last July when the head of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints stood up to make his annual speech for Pioneer Day. But instead of a soothing homage to Mormon virtues and achievements in the 154 years since the pioneers settled Utah, Hinckley, 91, gave the world's 11 million Mormons a lecture on being good neighbors...
...crass way to cash in on two markets. While considering its own devotion to both genres beyond reproach, Linkin Park concedes that some of its fellow hybridists may not be so purely motivated. On a track called Step Up, Shinoda raps, "Rapping over rock doesn't make you a pioneer/ 'Cause rock and hip-hop collaborated for years/ But now they're getting readily mixed and matched up/ After a fast buck and all the tracks suck...
...blue-chip Japanese exporters, which, while not dirt cheap, stand to benefit from renewed buying among U.S. customers and a continuing slide in the yen. David Bowers, chief international strategist at Merrill Lynch, likes the copier company Canon, where 84% of sales are outside Japan, and consumer electronics giant Pioneer, where 64% of sales are outside Japan. Also on his list is Nissan, which has been aggressively investing in new production technologies. All three stocks trade in the U.S. as American Depositary Receipts...
...Tony was a distinguished public servant and a pioneer in legal education,” HLS Dean Robert C. Clark said in a statement...
...citizen since Theodore Roosevelt." He completed his annus mirabilis by meeting Anne Morrow, whom he would marry in 1929. They would seek privacy, especially after their son was notoriously kidnapped and murdered in 1932, but both would remain lifelong celebrities--she as an author, he as a continuing aviation pioneer, an inventor who contributed to the artificial heart, an airline consultant and an advocate of sometimes controversial political views...