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READING LIST: April 1st

Apr 02, 2010 1 Comment by Steve Pierce

Day three and we’re still plugging away. Lots of good April Fools stuff today — and some that I only wish were jokes. (I’m looking at you, Hannity.)
1) APRIL FOOLS: For your pseudo-holiday pleasure, the Museum of Hoaxes has a comprehensive list of the 100 greatest April Fools jokes of all-time. There’s some good stuff [...]

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READING LIST: March 31st

Mar 31, 2010 No Comments by Steve Pierce

Day two of the revamped Rhombus Reading List and we’re still here. We’re cooking with gas now.
1) POLITICS: An intriguing (if more than a bit wishful) article speculating on favorite Mormon homeboy Mitt Romney’s uncanny fitness to oversee the implementation of President Obama’s new health care reform laws — you know, if he ever realized [...]

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READING LIST: March 30th

Mar 30, 2010 3 Comments by Steve Pierce

With the return of Rhombus and the new site design, I’ve decided to try and delve back into the Rhombus Reading List. Longtime readers will remember that I tried to do this as a daily feature a couple months back as an aggregator of cool stuff I read/saw on the Web, but it fell apart [...]

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Welcome to the New Rhombus: A Message from the Editor

Mar 30, 2010 2 Comments by Steve Pierce

So, it’s been awhile.
Many of you (okay, not that many) have probably wondered why Rhombus, which had previously been a picture of near-daily publishing consistency up until a month or so ago, suddenly went M.I.A. for a couple weeks there. Sure, we posted an article or a podcast here and there, but nothing too snazzy. [...]

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LOCAL: Standing for the BYU Women's Research Institute

Nov 07, 2009 1 Comment by Kristin Clift

Many criticisms of the early LDS Church centered on what were perceived as overly liberal views of women’s rights. Nevertheless, in 1870, Brigham Young wanted to make it known that Mormon women weren’t “downtrodden” and Utah became the second territory to allow women’s suffrage. With such a strong foundation of female equality, it came [...]

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