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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Drive For A New Utah | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Utah | 2/3/2002 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Utah | 2/3/2002 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Divorce Hurt Kids? | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Little Tact Goes a Long Way | 1/7/2002 | See Source »

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