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June 16, 1995: It's announced that Salt Lake City has won the right to be host of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. Grumbling from press row. "Trouble ahead," says a grizzled veteran of the Games with a sigh. "Mormon morals--that'll bring 'em down...
What wasn't presaged by even the most knowing, most inside, most keen-nosed Olympics hound was that, more than three years before any torch lighting, the head of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee--a fine Mormon he was--would be brought down by a spousal-abuse charge, and his successor and others would fall in a huge, still widening bribery scandal. Salt Lake City wanted to hot up its image for the Olympics, and today it has no worries...
Ultimately, the International Olympic Committee awarded the city the 2002 Winter Olympics by an overwhelming margin. Mormon determination, it seemed, had paid...
...years on the Hill, Udall was a tireless and effective advocate of environmental protection and campaign reform. Though his liberal politics often clashed with those of his constituents, the wry, self-deprecating Representative was singularly well respected. Of his popularity, he marveled, "I'm a one-eyed Mormon Democrat from conservative Arizona. You can't have a higher handicap than that...
...also got an eclectic religious education. His mother took the kids to Roman Catholic Mass. A stepmother brought in some Mormon proselytizers. His aunt, with whom he lived for a time, had converted to the Nazarene Church ("What did I know from fanatical?" he asks). In high school his Jewish friends inducted him into the sacred rituals of seder, bagels and lox. At the same time he joined "a great group of people" who were born-again Christians; for four years he led Bible readings. But Tom was a man with his own mission. The mission was acting...