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...travels to what is arguably the reddest state in the nation, Utah, he would normally expect a particularly hearty greeting. So it was more than a little surprising for the rest of the country when on Wednesday Rocky Anderson, the city's Democratic mayor, "welcomed" President Bush to Salt Lake City not with a slap on the back and a chat, but with an estimated 4,000-strong anti-Bush, anti-war protest...
...sect follows the original fundamental teachings of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, which include the practice of polygamy. The Salt Lake City-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints left polygamy behind in 1890 and now excommunicates members who practice...
...polygamy is about and that is what Warren Jeffs represents," says John Llewelln, who points out that Jeffs is the leader of the largest and most secretive of the fundamentalist polygamy groups. Llewelln has authored four books on polygamy and is a former polygamist himself; he also worked as Salt Lake County's deputy sheriff, specializing in sex crimes investigations. "From the fundamentalist Mormon polygamist point of view, Jeffs is the quintessential Mormon polygamist because he does not hold himself accountable to any government or societal rules - only his religion. His followers view him as having done nothing wrong except...
Despite concerns from Boston lifers that it has become too corporate, the Beanpot Championship remains a salt-of-the-earth New England institution...
...House intelligence committee only rubbed salt into that wound Wednesday when it released a report declaring just that, saying specifically that "the United States lacks critical information needed for analysts to make many of their judgments with confidence about Iran and there are many significant information gaps." But in calling attention now to the U.S. intelligence gaps about Iran's activity, the 29-page study seemed to remind some in Washington of the White House's 2002 push for war with Iraq, which was based on what is now known to have been seriously flawed intelligence. That suspicion was only...