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Evans, 33, a former advertising executive in Salt Lake City, Utah, wrote the story in 1992 as a gift for his two daughters. A devout Mormon, he credits divine guidance at 4 a.m. for revealing the book's structure (a boon that should make him the envy of the entire writing community), and his work does bear a resemblance to the Christian fiction that has been a flourishing publishing genre in the past few years. In the book Richard, a young Salt Lake City man, and his wife move in with Mary, a luminous and wealthy old woman, who houses...
...caving into political considerations. There's no proof of this, but who could blame them. Minutes after the vote, the Citizens Flag Alliance, the coalition of 100 lobbying groups promoting the flag-burning amendment, sent out a press-release stating only. "See you in November." Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee warned. "The amendment is not going to go away," and tied its failure to opposition from President Clinton. Hatch vows to bring it up again in the next Congress...
...more than four hours (one per married year) an alternately tearful and angry Enid Greene Waldholtz proceeded to tell her story of how she had been taken in by her husband, who is currently under federal investigation in a $1.7 million check-kiting scheme. In her rambling confessional, the Utah congresswoman said she will not resign, and attempted to give reporters a "full accounting" of how she says her husband duped her with a promised marriage gift of $5 million. "It was a virtuoso performance," says TIME's Nina Burleigh, "a remarkable combination of contrition and lawyerly acumen...
This weekend's convention is the third of its kind. Past conferences were held in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Salt Lake City, Utah...
None of this should be of great concern to Glenn Bailey, who runs the Crossroads Urban Center in Salt Lake City. The largest emergency food pantry in Utah, Bailey's center fed an estimated 30,000 people last year, and is mostly supported by churches, foundations and individuals. Yet Bailey dreads the proposed federal cuts almost as much as the more government-dependent charities. "It's simple mathematics," he says. The number of clients will go up because "people won't be eligible for welfare at a time when they need [it]." If the other local food pantries, which rely...