90% of Provo rapes not reported to police
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PROVO More than 90 percent of rapes in the city go unreported, according to the lead rape investigator for the BYU Police Department.
BYU officer Arnie Lemmon said only 43 rapes were reported last year in Provo, leaving the actual number of rapes estimated at more [...]
LDS leadership succession plan wellestablished
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Latter-day Saints take comfort in the fact that their church is never without leadership, even when the presiding First Presidency is dissolved upon the death of the president.
Leadership automatically shifts to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in a move formally termed “apostolic interregnum.” That [...]
Kenya#39;s Kibaki Calls for Political Talks to End Riots (Update7)
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Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) — Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki said
political parties must meet immediately to halt post-election
violence in the east African nation that has killed hundreds of
people.
Kibaki, who was sworn in Dec. [...]
Tara Brabazon Bowling Google a googly
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It comes as no surprise to learn that Germaine Greer is featured in Ladies Who Lunge, one of Professor Tara Brabazon’s growing pile of published works. Like Greer, Brabazon is an iconoclastic Australian who has hit these shores with some force and begun to make waves in her own branch of academia. That book, says [...]
Millions wasted on school contract bids
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Hundreds of millions of pounds are being lost by a government scheme that aims to rebuild or remodel every secondary school in the country, it has emerged. Enough money to fund a new school in every local authority is being wasted because of the costly and burdensome bidding process used by the government, according to [...]
Clegg prepares plans to end state intervention in schools
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Nick Clegg will unveil plans to end state interference in schools this week as he moves to bury the Liberal Democrats’ traditional approach to public services.In his first keynote speech since becoming party leader, Clegg will challenge many of the party’s supporters in teaching and local government by issuing proposals which will “effectively take schools [...]
The singing professor
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It’s show time in the antipodes. An award-winning performer strides to the front of a regular gathering, picks up an acoustic guitar and strums the opening bars to one of his folk-tinged originals. The fans gawp with undisguised pleasure - heads nodding in time, feet tapping, pens clicking.Welcome to another lecture by Warwick Murray, a [...]
