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| Local News |
| Tempe Police Take Threat Against Tabernacle Seriously |
| Residents near the Shalimar Country Club in Tempe,
Arizona were surprised to see leaflets circulated in their
neighborhood Monday that claimed "the Mormon Tabernacle is about to
come down!!!" Two residents called the Temple Police Department after
receiving the threatening fliers, and police say they have to take
the threat seriously. |
| Nauvoo Monastery Purchased by LDS Church will be Torn Down |
| Officials from the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints say they have little use for the former St. Mary
Monastery and have decided to tear it down. The structure is located
literally in the shadow of the new Nauvoo Temple. |
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| Sports |
| Canada Press Reporter Looks at Mormons and Olympics |
| In a spectacular 3-page spread in the
middle of our weekly commentary section, the Sunday issue of the
Edmonton Journal carries a report by CP (Canadian Press) reporter
Gary Mason, who I believe is from Vancouver. He starts and ends with
somewhat tongue-in-cheeks forecasts that the biggest problems the
games will have is a lack of taxis. As the Edmonton Journal is a
Southam chain paper, presumably this same article appeared in major
metropolitan papers across the whole country. |
| LDS High School Swimmer Succeeds with Busy Schedule |
| Jonathan Michela's whirlwind schedule begins at
4:50 a.m. each weekday. Smelling faintly like the chlorinated pool he
emerged from only hours before, Michela, a Mormon, rolls out of bed
to prepare for an hour-long religion class that starts at 6 a.m.
"Chill out" time, an entire 45 minutes of milling about at home, does
not come until 2:30 p.m. -- after the junior has completed a full day
of high school. |
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| Politics |
| LDS Expert: Religious Rights in China Declining |
| Michael Young, Chairman of the U.S. Commission on
International Religious Freedom, wrote U.S. President George W. Bush
last week to say that religious freedom has declined in China since
the U.S. gave the country full trading rights. Young, a member of The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Dean of the George
Washington University School of Law, has become a recognized expert
in International religious freedom since his appointment to the
Commission in 1999 by then-President Bill Clinton. He was made
Chairman of the Commission in September. |
| Utah Laws Require Schools, Maybe Even BYU, to Allow Guns |
| On January 1, Governor Mike Leavitt's order
took effect that all Utah state agencies abolish bans against
carrying concealed weapons on state property. The order has brought
bans by Utah's universities to the debate floor of the Utah State
Legislature and has Mark Shurtleff, the Attorney General for the
State of Utah, currently researching whether BYU and other private
universities in the state can be required to allow guns on campus. He
has already stated that Utah law is clear with regard to state-owned
universities and state buildings: they cannot ban guns being carried
by those doing so legally. |
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| Internet |
| Missionary Letter Website Growing |
| DearElder.com now serves all missions of The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and drastically cuts delivery time
on mail sent to missionaries. Letters to foreign missions that travel
through the Church's pouch system arrive in one or two weeks and the
service is free, letters to the Brazilian missions take one or two
days and the service is free, and letters to the Provo, MTC can be
delivered the same day, however, there is a 34 cent charge for
postage. Letters to all other missions are sent for the cost of
postage. |
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| People |
| Mormon Job: Harvey 'Job' Matusow, McCarthy Turncoat, Dead at 75 |
| Harvey "Job" Matusow, whose flip-flopping
allegiances in the 1950s contributed to the downfall of then-Senator
Joseph McCarthy, died January 17th at a hospital in Lebanon, New
Hampshire, of injuries suffered in a January 2nd auto accident.
Matusow later joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
served time for perjury, became an activist in many different causes,
and established an award-winning children's television program in
Arizona. He called himself "Job" because of the tribulations that the
McCarthy period brought on him. |
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| Arts & Entertainment |
| Deseret Book's Strong Season Makes Publishers Weekly |
| The strong Fall season at Deseret Book, the
book publisher and retail bookstore chain owned by The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, caught the attention of Publishers
Weekly, a book publishing trade magazine. In a story published in its
weekly Religion Bookline update, reporter Jana Riess interviewed
Sheri Dew, executive vice-president of publishing for Deseret Book's
Shadow Mountain imprint, about the publisher's four best selling
titles for the Fall, including President Hinckley's "Stand a Little
Taller," which has sold about 360,000 copies. The same issue of
Religion Bookline also gave short reviews of four titles published by
mainstream and religious publishers on Mormonism. |
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| Business |
| Judge Allows Manufacture of Joseph Smith Ring |
| Judge Anthony Quinn, of the 3rd District
Court, issued a decision to dismiss the case of an Orem man who
attempted to prevent Ringmasters LLC of Ogden from producing and
marketing replicas of a ring that was worn by the prophet Joseph
Smith. Erwin "Buddy" Youngreen filed a lawsuit against the jeweler in
October and accused him of conspiring with Allan R. Baird and David
Lewis of making 300 unauthorized replicas for a Sandy, Utah ward of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
| Geneva Steel Bankrupt Again |
| For the second time in just three years Geneva
Steel, one of the largest employers in heavily-Mormon Utah County,
has sought protection under chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy laws. The
steel producer filed in response to its secured creditors, who
required the filing as a condition to further financing of the
company. The current agreement with the secured lenders gives the
company access to cash through May 1, 2002. |
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