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...Utah.com: 2002 Winter Olympics Guide ? From the official travel site of the state of Utah, information on tickets, lodging, venues and more...
...profiles of some of the athletes everyone will be watching, photo essays of past Olympiads and an archive of TIME's coverage of the Olympic Games. Once the Games begin, we will file dispatches on the athletes, events and environs of the 19th Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. At time.com/olympics2002...
...Green's case has divided Utah, where polygamy, although banned a century ago by both the state and its dominant religious group, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is nonetheless still widely practiced. The last bigamy trial was held in the 1950s, and today an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 people live in polygamous households in Utah. But Green's wives were particularly young when he married them--14 to 16. And unlike most polygamists, who live discreetly, Green has been vocal in his support of plural marriage. An interview he gave...
...Green was born in Salt Lake City. He was brought up a Mormon, and did two years of missionary work for the church in Indiana and Michigan before returning to Utah to study church history. "It was then I saw polygamy had not been abandoned; it just went underground," he says. For proclaiming his belief in polygamy, Green underwent a four-hour excommunication trial in 1980. "For them it was a ticket to hell," Green says. "I saw it as a graduation...
...publicity comes at an awkward time as the state gears up for next winter's Olympics, to be held in Salt Lake City. Some fear the polygamy trial could tarnish Utah's name internationally. Green is not above poking fun at the state's dilemma. "We even thought we would set up a polygamy booth at the airport and sell T shirts with pictures of my wives inside the five Olympic rings...