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I once knew a man who worked for a major oil company. He managed a large wholesale territory that sold fuel and oil products to airlines and other big accounts. Some years ago, the company decided to pull out of his territory. They offered him the opportunity to buy the wholesale business “for a song,” which he readily accepted. He worked diligently and set specific financial goals for his company. He committed these goals to writing on 3x5 cards and kept them in his shirt pocket so he could frequently review them. Everything he did with that business was aimed at fulfilling these goals.
When Les Misérables opened in London’s West End in 1985, many critics gave it an unfavorable review, declaring it bloated, dreadful, and “witless.”1 Despite the negativity, performances sold out quickly, and the original run lasted more than thirty years. Les Misérables remains one of the most popular musicals of all time.
Research by a BYU Marriott professor indicates that increases in tuition may be linked to the amount of money students are allowed to borrow.
Many nineteenth-century members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints trekked more than a thousand miles across North America, pulling handcarts loaded with supplies and other precious possessions for the journey.
When Mark Roberts began working at the FBI in 2002, its cyber program was small. “Almost nonexistent,” he says. “And the cases were mostly child pornography.”
Stephanie Janczak felt nervous when she walked into professor Ramon Zabriskie’s classroom for the first time. A BYU Marriott therapeutic recreation and management (TRM) major, Janczak knew that she would be working alongside the other TRM students in the class for the next two years as the cohort progressed toward graduation.
The many instances of some- times lethal violence and discrimination against Black people that have been widely publicized in the news media in the last several months have been deeply disturbing to me and
America’s Founding Fathers may have been an inspired bunch who forever changed the world, but they definitely aren’t known for diversity.
On 12 March, BYU announced that classes would be canceled through March 17 and then resume completely online. This unprecedented decision came as COVID-19 reached pandemic levels.
Finding a job may be more of a numbers game than you ever thought.
When I arrived at BYU eight years ago, I was in my new office, organizing books and filing papers, when I received a telephone call informing me that there had been a glitch in payroll processing, and I would not be receiving a paycheck during the first two months of my employment. I said, “Thank you,” hung up the phone, and started thinking about how to break this news to my wife, Jan. 
Henry Ford famously said, “Whether you think you can or you can’t, you are right.” His profound statement may explain the fantastically varied results of millions of New Year’s resolutions that Americans make each January. By summertime many of us have achieved our goals. Others have given up. And still a few of us muscle onward, clinging courageously to goals we have set but not yet met. 
Underneath glittering stage lights the bass player and keyboardist pound out a melody. The lead singer sidles up to the microphone and belts out “American Idiot” with enough angst to fool anyone into believing he’s a member of a teenage garage band.
What do you do when your neighbor or friend is out of work? It can be difficult to bring up the subject because there’s often a great deal of stress and emotion attached to the issue.