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David Williams met the modern world in a little town square shaded by pecan and oak trees in remote West Texas, and it was hard to know which found the other more bewildering. The 32-year-old welder wore his hair slicked in a bygone style and sometimes stammered as...
Williams had driven 1,200 miles (1,900 km) to Eldorado, Texas, in the hope that a brief encounter with modernity would allow him--and others like him--to push it once more far from his life. He is a believer in an antique and renegade Mormon sect that has...
But as he and other men of the sect tried to explain themselves to the 21st century, it was as if no common language existed. One man, who gave his name only as Rulon, declared, "We have broken no laws"--though the laws against having multiple wives are more than...
Nor does the state of Texas seem to understand, entirely, what it's dealing with. At first glance, the YFZ ranch has the look of other compounds built by apocalyptic cults led by charismatic tyrants. But this is a group with a tangled history many generations deep. Renegade sects have...
Dodging the credit crunch has burnished its image, too. According to the MDRC survey, lenders hit hardest by the subprime snafu suffered sharp drops in client-satisfaction scores at their private-banking or wealth-management units. The worry, says Williams, was that "these pristine organizations were shown to be pretty...