Word: cult
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Flyer (Elektra). This wide-eyed, waiflike folk singer from Texas -- picture Emily Dickinson with a guitar -- has long been a cult favorite. She breaks into the mainstream with this moving, semiautobiographical cycle of lost loves and missed opportunities, all the while smiling through her tears...
...patriot movement was galvanized by two events: the bloody face-off in rural Idaho between white separatist Randy Weaver and law-enforcement officials in 1992 and the fiery siege of the Waco, Texas, compound of cult leader David Koresh in 1993. The violent confrontations helped convince many would-be militia members that the U.S. government was repressive as well as violently antigun and untrustworthy. "The Waco thing really woke me up," says Frank Swan, 36, a trucker who is a member of a militia in Montana. "They went in there and killed women and children...
French police today rounded up 40 people in connection with the deaths of 53 followers of an obscure cult whose bodies were found in Switzerland and Canada in early October. The arrests -- in Southern France, Brittany in the northwest and in the Paris area -- were made in connection with the finances of the cult, the Order of the Solar Temple. Police did not release other details, including the charges brought against them. One of those being held in the confines of a French slammer is Christian-Marie Le Gall, a doctor who shared a medical office with Luc Jouret...
Hrnicek's group, some of whose members belong to the Boston Church of Christ, an alleged cult, has not yet been recommended for recognition by Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III because of questions about the group's autonomy...
...Boston Church of Christ has been widely accused of being a cult by local religious leaders off campus and proctors on campus...