Put it in the history books: The country was officially diagnosed with a job-killing recession Monday, and woeful new evidence showed it's getting worse. Wall Street convulsed at the news, tanking 680 points, and Washington pledged even more help to try to ease the pain.
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They survived amid mobbings, beatings, burnings, a horse-drawn wagon journey across the Great Plains and even the ravages of mice roaming inside their wooden crate.
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Barack Obama promised "a new dawn of American leadership" in a troubled world Monday, announcing a strong-willed national security team headed by Hillary Rodham Clinton, who fought him long and bitterly for the presidency, and Robert Gates, the man who has been running two wars for George W. Bush.
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If your Christmas list includes a Wii, you'll most likely be standing with your fingers crossed in a line that forms hours before the sun rises. And you might still come up empty handed.
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Brooke McAlister went to her first volleyball tryout an unwilling participant. "My friends invited me, and my mom signed me up," said the Pleasant Grove senior. "I didn't really want to go, but once I got out on the court, I just loved it."
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The Utah Salt Lake City Area sports committee newsletter for December includes a suggestion for stake leaders to hold sportsmanship firesides. "The most-often expressed concern of stake presidents and bishops about church sports is poor sportsmanship, and the ensuing hurt feelings and loss of the Spirit that follows," the newsletter says.
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It's now a waiting game for the Bowl Championship Series-bound Utah Utes. They won't learn their bowl destination or opponent until Sunday night when the BCS pairings are unveiled on Fox (6 p.m. Ch. 13).
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After an outing like the one the Jazz had last Saturday night, when they followed a showy win over Sacramento with a blowout home loss to New Jersey, coach Jerry Sloan might be inclined to practice his club longer, harder and much more frequently in the near future.
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State Rep. Greg Hughes, cleared of ethics violations just before the Nov. 4 election, says he will introduce a bill in next month's Legislature that would set up an "independent" inspector general's office in Utah government that would handle legislative ethics, as well as other complaints against state employees.
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