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| General News |
| LDS Church Files Civil Rights Lawsuit Against Harrison, New York |
| In a new attempt to get its proposed Harrison
New York Temple built, the LDS Church today filed a major civil
rights lawsuit against the Town of Harrison, its town board, planning
board and zoning board of appeals and against the town building
inspector, alleging a conspiracy to deprive the Church of its civil
rights. The lawsuit alleges that the defendants "deprived plaintiffs
of the ability to use their property to construct a place of worship
. . . and have engaged in other acts which violate the plaintiffs'
constitutional rights." |
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| LDS Church Files Civil Rights Lawsuit Against Harrison, New York |
| A pair of LDS missionaries were praised
Monday after they saved the life of a teen who had been stabbed. The
missionaries were shocked to witness the stabbing Sunday night, but
quickly helped the injured teen to safety. |
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| Local News |
| BYU Students' Sham Ministry Fails, Leads to Disciplinary Action |
| Ten minutes on the Internet, allowing Charles Clawson,
Corbin Clawson and John Hash to become ministers of the Universal
Life Church, may have earned them probationary status at Brigham
Young University along with misdemeanors from the city of Provo. In
an effort to host a public Halloween dance, and take advantage of a
loophole in the Provo City ordinance that requires security guards, a
metal detector and surveillance camera, Clawson and Hash decided to
use "Internet credentials" to bypass the dance law. |
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| The Church and the Chapel: Meetinghouse Construction in the Former Soviet Union |
| It is said to be one of the largest LDS
meetinghouses in the world. Although its construction was completed
over six months ago, the the LDS chapel in Ufa, Russia, lies empty on
Sundays, while local church members meet in rented facilities. The
building, located not far from the city hall of the capital of
Bashkortostan, Russia, was built with all necessary legal
permissions. The church was closed by a state inspection board
because of uncompleted construction on an adjacent property. The
President of the Council of Religious Affairs of the Bashkortostan
Republic's cabinet of ministers, Anvar Muratshin, observed at the
time that various inspection organizations may raise technical
questions to the owners of new buildings, and that "this should not
be construed as oppression of believers by the local authorities." |
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| Sports |
| Staley Named Touchdown Club's Running Back of the Year |
| One day after undergoing surgery, BYU running back
Luke Staley was today named the Touchdown Club of Columbus Running
Back of the Year. Staley joins Marshall Faulk, Eddie George, Ricky
Williams, Ron Dayne and LaDainian Tomlinson as winners of the
Touchdown Club of Columbus Running Back of the Year Award. |
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| Cramer To Play Three Games With U.S. National Team |
| The U.S. Women's National Team's clash with
Mexico on January 12 at Blackbaud Stadium in Charleston, S.C., (7
p.m. ET on ESPN2) will be just the beginning of a three-week trek
that will take the team across the world to China, where they will
face Norway, Germany and China in the Four Nations Women's Tournament
taking place in Guangzhou from January 23-27, 2002. |
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| Politics |
| Congress Approves Bill to Study Expanding Assistance to Downwinders |
| Congress has given final approval to legislation
sponsored by Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) requiring the federal
government to study whether there is scientific evidence supporting
expansion of coverage for a popular program assisting radiation
victims downwind from the nuclear test site in Nevada. The bill also
provides for a $4 million, Hatch-sponsored program to assist
communities that want to screen possible downwind radiation victims. |
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| Business |
| Huntsman to Delay Purchase of ICI Stake Says Reuters |
| Billionaire Mormon businessman Jon M.
Huntsman is expected to announce this week a new deal, says Reuters,
with Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries Plc (ICI) that will delay
the planned buyout of ICI's 30% stake in Huntsman International. The
delay, expected to be for at least a year, highlights the weakness in
the commodity chemicals industry and in Huntsman's financial
position, trouble that led Huntsman Corporation, which owns the
billionaire's North American operations, to drop two interest
payments and watch its bond ratings drop into S&P's cellar. |
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