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...Folds quickly proved his rare ability to take the uniquely personal experiences of himself and the characters in his songs and turn them into universal themes. With Folds’s manic pounding on the baby grand and Sledge’s prominent bass-playing, BFF quickly became a cult favorite. The highlight of their debut release was the wildly sarcastic “Underground,” a parody of the very underground rock scene they emerged from with lines like: “You been kicked around? / Did life bring you down here? / Everything’s heavy...
Last month, Harvard’s Office of Career Services held a seminar to introduce students to the recruiting program. Numerous upperclassmen piled into Science Center C, Palm Pilots in tow, eager to enlist in the cult that is on-campus recruiting. The moguls-to-be entered the meeting cocky and left nauseous...
Indeed, the most devastating nonmilitary chemical attack ever, by the Aum Shinrikyo cult in Tokyo in 1995, killed only a dozen people. One reason is that the delivery method was crude: cultists dropped plastic bags of sarin (smuggled in lunch boxes and soft-drink containers) on a subway platform and pierced them with umbrella tips. Also the amounts were relatively small. Says Smithson: "Any bozo can make a chemical agent in a beaker, but producing tons and tons is difficult." Aum Shinrikyo tried to make the stuff in bulk, recruiting scientists and spending at least $10 million, but it failed...
...when the rules don't apply, when inconceivably cold-blooded evil is in command, the victims are truly helpless. In the face of unfathomable evil, decent people are psychologically disarmed. What is so striking--and so alien to civilized sensibilities--about the terrorists of radical Islam is their cult of death. Their rhetoric is soaked in the glory of immolation: immolation of the infidel and self-immolation of the avenger. Not since the Nazi rallies of the 1930s has the world witnessed such celebration of blood and soil, of killing and dying. What Western TV would feature, as does Palestinian...
...Indeed, the most devastating nonmilitary chemical attack ever, by the Aum Shinrikyo cult in Tokyo in 1995, killed only a dozen people. One reason is that the delivery method was crude: cultists dropped plastic bags of sarin (smuggled in lunch boxes and soft-drink containers) on a subway platform and pierced them with umbrella tips. Also the amounts were relatively small. Says Smithson: "Any bozo can make a chemical agent in a beaker, but producing tons and tons is difficult." Aum Shinrikyo tried to make the stuff in bulk, recruiting scientists and spending at least $10 million, but it failed...