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Koresh dropped out of school in the ninth grade. Raised in the mainstream Seventh-day Adventist Church, he found comfort as a young man in the teachings of an obscure offshoot, the Branch Davidians, which was a mutation of an earlier Adventist splinter group. The Davidians trace their roots to Victor Houteff, a Bulgarian immigrant who was expelled from a Los Angeles Adventist church in 1929. Houteff had become obsessed with passages in the Book of Ezekiel in which an angel of God divides the faithful from the sinful before Jerusalem's fall to the Babylonians. Believing that passage...
...hands-off righteousness occurred at Yale last week. Dwight Hall, the student-run public service center (analogous to Harvard's Phillips Brooks House), refused space to the Boy Scouts, despite their admirable public service record, because they do not allow gay members or scoutmasters. Even had the Connecticut branch of the Boy Scouts wanted to change its policy due to these local pressures, the national headquarters would not permit it. (This is the same dilemma that the ROTC branches face when boycotted by universities...
...idea of a historic trail in Cambridge will not be limited to only African American citizens. Eventually the trails will branch to possibly cover Irish, Portuguese, Italian and French Canadian Cantabrigians, Reeves said...
...complicated arrangements. Controlling hundreds of leading actors, directors and producers, the agency's chief, Michael Ovitz, has reinvented the meaning of the deal in Hollywood, often representing nearly every major player in top films and selling them as a package. But Ovitz has long yearned to have his firm branch out from being merely talent agents. He got close to Coke executives when he helped arrange Sony's friendly purchase of Columbia Pictures from Coca-Cola...
...services. Last year Recon/Optical, a suburban Chicago military contractor, charged the Israeli air force with trying to steal the blueprints for a top-secret airborne spy camera. The Israelis agreed to settle the case by paying $3 million in damages. The French intelligence service recruited moles in the European branch offices of IBM, Texas Instruments and other U.S. electronics companies. A decade ago, an FBI sting operation caught senior-level executives at Hitachi and Mitsubishi trying to buy confidential information on the latest IBM computer chip. After initially refusing to submit to U.S. jurisdiction, both companies pleaded guilty to charges...