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...live in Utah is to live in a state of paradox," says Terry Tempest Williams, one of the state's best-known writers. Utah is hardly Brigham Young's Promised Land of milk and honey. It is mostly infertile desert, rock and a lake that is too salty to support even fish. Out of this apocalyptic landscape of blood-red rock and sulphur-colored plains, the pioneers hacked a difficult livelihood, struggling with biblical droughts, a plague of grasshoppers and overpowering summer heat. In other Western states such hardships bred a cantankerous individualism. In Utah the LDS church fostered...
...There is a strong sense in Utah of the inside [the Mormon faith] and the outside," says the writer Tempest Williams. "The vitality of this state is right along that border-the place of greatest reward, but also the place of greatest risk." That is where the plot is still being written. Like all David Lynch movies, it will have many strange twists before...
There's a difference too between this debate and the anguish millions of parents endure, and put their kids through, while trying to decide whether to live together or apart. Compared with that, a scholarly family feud may seem a mere tempest in a teacup...
...hope that this tempest in a teapot will not distract Summers for long from important efforts in the area of undergraduate education. He must continue to work for faculty cooperation to achieve the goals he set out in his inaugural address. And we anticipate that in the future, Summers will be able to pursue University-wide excellence without such controversies. After all, the president of an institution of higher education must be able to learn as well as to teach...
...Come they did. Before dawn on Tuesday, thousands of pro-Estrada supporters swarmed to the palace, bearing stones and clubs. Inside her war room, Arroyo could hear the ominous battle din: the bursts of warning gunfire, a tempest of stones thwacking police riot shields, the mob's murderous roar. Arroyo says she has an intimate knowledge of MalacaNang, having lived there as the daughter of former President Diosdado Macapagal. Therefore, she knew all the palace's secret passages and escape routes. Outside, police battled rioters for more than 12 hours. More than 100 people were injured, and at least four...