Word: cult
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Four panelists will debate before an ARCO Forum audience expected to include members of the Church of Scientology, anti-cult activists and Harvard students, according to IOP affiliates...
...State Department report that accuses Massoud Rajavi and other People's Mujahedin leaders of terror against the U.S. in the 1970s. The report goes on to charge that the group still has Marxist leanings, strong ties to Saddam Hussein and few democratic tendencies. "There is a cult of personality around Massoud and Maryam Rajavi that is unhealthy," says Michael Eisenstadt, an Iran expert at the Washington Institute on Near East Policy. "If they were to achieve power, it is unlikely they would give...
...months Chua-Eoan has written the cover story on the murder of Ennis Cosby, supervised our inside look at the Simpson civil trial, edited the March 24 cover story, "Does Heaven Exist?," and put together a 16-page special report on the mass suicide of the Heaven's Gate cult members. Along the way, somehow, he has also managed to pull together TIME's 25 Most Influential Americans. "TIME 25 is a magazine-wide effort," he says, "and I had a terrific core team" made up of art director Marti Golon, picture editor Bronwen Latimer and assistant editor Ursula Nadasdy...
That revelation, Bell reported on his elaborate and well-attended Website, "practically blew away my disbelieving side." It seemed to have had a similar effect on the Heaven's Gate cult members, who surmised that the spacecraft would be their vehicle for reaching "the next level...
Even after astronomers identified Shramek's "object" as an ordinary star and Bell himself exposed Brown's picture as a fake and his "Top-10" professor a no-show, the cult members were not dissuaded. When news of their suicide was reported, says Bell, "I started getting a lot of messages saying, 'Art Bell, you killed 39 people.' It's important to understand that the only person who ever said there was a spacecraft following Hale-Bopp was Courtney Brown...