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...site has proved popular with religious organizations, artists and other groups that have a dedicated rather than a mass following. (Mormon Artist is one such title.) What Powazek proved is that MagCloud could also be a breakthrough for news...
...common horror (aliens, sharks, and murderers) and into an epic spotlight. Now they are the stars of an incredibly successful book franchise, a blooming film franchise, a hit HBO show, a new show on the CW, and the list goes on. How did this happen?The answer: a Mormon from Arizona, author of the “Twilight” series, Stephanie Meyer. While we were all fidgeting over the release of the next “Harry Potter” book in the first half of this decade, Meyer was working away on an idea that would make Potter...
...extract one concession from the junta. When the Senator's plane left Burma on Aug. 16, it carried an extra occupant: John Yettaw, the American sentenced to seven years' imprisonment with hard labor for his midnight swim to Suu Kyi's home. His saga--that of a middle-aged Mormon from Missouri who used homemade flippers to visit the world's most famous political prisoner--is stranger than any fiction, even that of Senator Jim Webb...
...active member of the Mormon Church until its leadership decided to campaign for Proposition 8. Each Sunday I was appalled by the carefully veiled instructions on how members should vote, saddened by the calls for money and horrified that teenagers were canvassing neighborhoods for support. What troubled me most was that never at any time did I hear a prayer uttered or a compassionate word spoken on behalf of those the proposition would most affect. The church seems callous to the epidemic of suicides among young gay Mormons. No matter how often Mormon leaders utter that worn adage "We hate...
...disturbing logic of Kim Jong Il and why the possible succession of his young son is shaping North Korean politics. London bureau chief Catherine Mayer dissects the rebellion against Gordon Brown and the future of the Labour Party. Contributor David Van Biema takes an in-depth look at the Mormon Church, the fourth largest in America, and its current high-profile involvement in politics, while our business columnist Justin Fox explains why financial markets don't necessarily know best, a piece based on his new book, The Myth of the Rational Market...