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The Return of Deedee

How former SLC Mayor Corradini got back in the news.

By D.P. Sorensen
POSTED // Aug 12,2009 - It made my day, big time. There it was, buried in the second paragraph of a story in The Salt Lake Tribune about Jon Huntsman Sr.’s 20,000-square-foot Deer Valley hideaway being put on the market for $55 million...

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Frothing at the Mouth

Church President Monson convenes a root-beer summit.

By D.P. Sorensen
POSTED // Aug 5,2009 - Prophet, seer, and revelator Thomas Monson used all of his considerable powers of persuasion to bring together the parties in the now-notorious "Church Plaza kiss" episode...

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End of the Line

Contemplating mortality— extraordinary and otherwise.

By D.P. Sorensen
POSTED // Jul 29,2009 - Death hangs over us, said the Roman orator Cicero, like the stone over Tantalus. Or like the pig that fell from a balcony a few years ago in downtown Dubrovnik, killing a hapless tourist from Brigham City...

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Sonia and Sarah

For Orrin Hatch, the wheels of politics are lubricated with skin cream

By D.P. Sorensen
POSTED // Jul 22,2009 - Utah's senior senator, Orrin Hatch, is still catching flak for his first question to Sonia Sotomayor during the hearings on her nomination to the Supreme Court. Surrounded by the usual clamoring media scum...

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S.U.S.

Snyderville reacts to a Park City snub.

By D.P. Sorensen
POSTED // Jul 15,2009 - They can't even get the name out of their mouths: "Sss, Sssnuh, Sssni, Sssnide..." The erstwhile inhabitants of... Snyderville (see, it's not so hard) have always considered themselves to be from ... Park City!

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Crossing the Line

Romney cultivates an air of sexual mystery.

By D.P. Sorensen
POSTED // Jul 8,2009 - "Did you see Meet the Press this morning?" My old missionary companion, Mit Romney (he recently downsized his first name, his houses and his family to show that he's taking the recession seriously ...

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Cosmetic Penury

Utahns share tips for cheap hair-and-skin care.

By D.P. Sorensen
POSTED // Jul 1,2009 - One of the untold stories of the current recession is the huge toll it's taking on personal grooming habits. People are no longer bothering to bathe, shave, apply makeup or even brush their hair before appearing in public.

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Fun With Stolen Artifacts

Family togetherness starts with pottery.

By D.P. Sorensen
POSTED // Jun 24,2009 - I am glad that champions of family values like our two elderly senators, Orrin “The Oracle” Hatch and Bob “Beanpole” Bennett, have come forward to denounce the heavyhanded and family-hostile tactics of federal law-enforcement goons ...

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Mission to Mars

The Beehive State has a lot in common with the Red Planet.

By D.P. Sorensen
POSTED // Jun 17,2009 - Utah and Mars go way back together, back to when Brigham Young brought the Saints to this God-forsaken corner of the organized universe. "This is the place," Brigham famously pronounced as he gazed upon the bleak landscape ...

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Alma Matters

Ten rules for surviving your class reunion.

By D.P. Sorensen
POSTED // Jun 10,2009 - I'm lucky to be alive. It was the last day of my college reunion, a morning mopping-up brunch for stragglers with late planes or diehards who wanted to wipe every last morsel of nostalgia from the sentimental smorgasbord...
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