Word: cult
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...developed a bit of a cult following, especially on the Internet. Nettwerk, her music label, is one of the first to advertise aggressively through the internet, and the maintain a Web site (http://www.wimsey.com/nettwerk/) that provides information about McLachlan and her music. McLachlan's quirkiness seems to appeal to her fans; she is a talented artist, and does much of the art for her album covers and inserts...
Hundreds of police searched the compound of theAum Shinrikyo cultin an effort to find a secret door that could lead them to the cult's leader. Shoko Asahara has been in hiding since theMarch 20 gas attack on Tokyo's subwaysthat killed 12. Police redoubled their efforts after Wednesday's surprise capture of two of the cult's top scientists in a secret room beneath a dormitory. They hope to find Asahara in a similar hiding place but have so far found nothing...
...INTERESTED IN BURUMA'S commentary on the cult followings that have developed in postwar Japan and elsewhere. All religions, however, have at their core a tenet that insists the individual is secondary to a superior force. So long as we allow others to do our thinking for us, we will continue to be led by those who insist they know best...
...leader of the cult suspected in theMar. 20 nerve gas attackin the Tokyo subways died from knife wounds he received yesterday. Hideo Murai, thehead of the Aum Shinrikyo cult's chemical research division, had appeared on Japanese television almost daily since thegas attacksto deny that the cult had anything to do with them. He was attacked yesterday by Hiroyuki Jo, a member of a right-wing group who told police that he was seeking revenge for the subway attack...
TIME Magazine reports that acting on a tip from the Japanese government, the U.S. prepared to raid the cult's midtown Manhattan office in March, before the Tokyo subway attack. An Air Force C-141 transport plane loaded with federal agents took off from Andrews Air Force base, but the raid was stopped when a federal judge would not issue a search warrant. The Associated Press reported today that the receptionist at the office said there was nothing there to interest federal agents. "We have nothing chemical here. Even the cockroaches...