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WILLIE JESSOP, spokesman for the FLDS church, after the state indicted six members of the polygamist sect--including leader Warren Jeffs--on charges related to child abuse...
...then, on July 28, Barack Obama held an economic summit with his covey of advisers - people like Bob Rubin, Larry Summers, Warren Buffett, Bob Reich; experts who seemed a sedimentary layer more recent than McCain's crowd but still more a part of the past than of the future. They had cleaned up the Reagan-era mess. They had actually balanced the budget and created a surplus. They had - contra voodoo - raised taxes and yet produced an economic boom. There was a fair amount of argument behind closed doors, I'm told, between the two groups that sparred...
...first appointee had no intention of writing odes to Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Robert Penn Warren said in 1986 that he "couldn't write to order" even if asked, and he spent his tenure overseeing the library's poetry collection. Subsequent laureates have used the position to broaden the reach of poetry in America. Joseph Brodsky championed poetry in public places; Robert Hass started an annual student competition; Billy Collins launched a website with a poem for every day of the school year. Ryan isn't yet sure what she's going to do but notes that she is constitutionally...
...Texas New Charges For Jeffs A grand jury indicted breakaway Mormon sect leader Warren Jeffs on charges of sexually assaulting a girl under age 17. Five of his followers also face counts stemming from an April raid on the polygamist group's Texas ranch. Jeffs was convicted in Utah last year as an accomplice to the rape of a child bride and awaits trial in Arizona on similar charges...
...return of the children taken from its ranch in Eldorado in April. But the state's attorney general Greg Abbott pledged to prosecute FLDS members to the full extent of the law. And this week, after going through evidence taken from the Yearning for Zion Ranch, Abbott indicted Warren Jeffs - the "Prophet" of the polygamists - along with four of his followers on charges of first-degree felony sexual assault of a minor. (The four men were not named, and law-enforcement officials are still seeking their arrest.) Evidence gathered during the raid included two photographs of young girls...