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Active-duty soldiers are doing their job when they deploy, but reservists--truck drivers from California and Maryland, cops and sheriffs from Utah and Maine, helicopter pilots from Georgia, engineers from Alabama--are leaving theirs behind. Ironically, that social disruption is exactly what the Pentagon intended when it redefined the mission of the reserves after Vietnam. Bitter at having been isolated from the rest of American society, it shifted to the reserves many traditional military tasks, like police and logistics. The idea was that any major war would require calling up those part-time soldiers and force sacrifices across...
Little did they know that the "father," Brian David Mitchell, 49, thought that he himself was divine. He had spent the past five or so years wandering the streets of Salt Lake City, Utah, with his wife Wanda Barzee, dressed up like Jesus and spouting biblical prophecies. They were just a pair of eccentrics until Mitchell had a revelation that transformed his earthly mission. He was directed, as Barzee told a mental-health advocate last week, to collect seven new wives. And lacking volunteers willing to join a polygamous union, Mitchell allegedly resorted to kidnapping. His first quarry was Elizabeth...
Mitchell and Barzee were deep within their newly concocted universe last Wednesday morning as they walked along a highway in Sandy, Utah, just south of Salt Lake. They wore crowns of flowers in their hair, and they had a young girl dressed in a long robe and white veil in tow. Recognizing Mitchell's face from a recent episode of America's Most Wanted, passersby dialed 911. When police officers arrived, the girl was trembling. Three times she told them her name was Augustine. "I know who you think I am. You guys think I'm that Elizabeth Smart girl...
...last year became the first European player to win Rookie of the Year. This year Yao is a favorite to become the first Asian to get the honor. Meanwhile, Russian-born 6-ft. 9-in. forward Andrei Kirilenko is helping his elders John Stockton and Karl Malone keep the Utah Jazz in the play-off hunt. "There are going to be a lot of us," says Gasol. "We're proving we can play here...
Weber St., Holy Cross, Liberty and Western Kentucky beat out Harvard for 13 seeds. Three of those teams had wins against opponents with far higher rankings than any Harvard had beaten. Western Kentucky knocked off Louisiana Tech, Liberty defeated Virginia and Weber St. beat Utah...