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...culprit. Born in Kitwit in the Belgian Congo, now Zaire, he went to Brussels in the 1970s for medical training, then moved around the world studying acupuncture and homeopathy, a system of treatment based on minimum doses of medication. Along the way he found himself drawn to the spiritual arcana of the Knights Templar, a mystical brotherhood banned in France in the 14th century. Eventually he joined a French-based group called the Reformed Order of the Temple that mixed Roman Catholicism, yoga, alchemy and anticommunism under the leadership of an ex-Gestapo officer named Julien Origas. After Origas died...
...number of years, Eugene Cernan was a familiar face on ABC, interpreting the arcana of space flight for Peter Jennings. Today he is president of Cernan Corp., an aerospace consulting firm in Houston. "I carry the label of the last man to leave his footprints on the surface," he says. "I never thought I would carry that label for as long as I have -- and unfortunately I will probably carry it for another generation...
...chairman will be Florida Democrat Sam Gibbons, 74, an affable and experienced veteran of 31 years on Ways and Means but hardly Rosty's equal as a coalition builder or horse trader. Though Gibbons insists he is a leader, he concedes he has not steeped himself in the arcana of taxation to the extent Rostenkowski has; Gibbons' primary interest has been trade. Some Democrats talked of choosing a younger and more dynamic chairman for Ways and Means, but the move collapsed after Gibbons invoked the nearly sacred rules of seniority...
...last December she persuaded a state trooper to sign an affidavit saying the President had never offered jobs in return for silence about his alleged trysts as Governor. Wright is also a prime source for reporters looking for dirt on Clinton's pesky accusers. But her expertise in Clinton arcana is costing her too. Friends say her lobbyist's salary won't cover the hefty legal fees already incurred complying with an expected subpoena from Whitewater prosecutor Robert Fiske...
While the Racial Justice Act's fine points are steeped in legal arcana, the bill inspired fierce rhetoric in the Senate last week. The act, said Orrin Hatch of Nevada, "has nothing to do with racial justice and everything to do with abolishing the death penalty" by employing "unreliable and manipulable statistical quota." To the act's defense came Carol Moseley-Braun of Illinois -- with statistics. Since 1988, she said, the government has sought the death penalty for drug kingpins in 36 cases involving four whites, four Hispanics and 28 blacks. Said Moseley-Braun: "Keep in mind that...