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...Karbovsky is one of the most popular writers for Egoist, a provocative monthly magazine that chronicles the harsh realities of life for young Bulgarians. With exposés on sex, drug communes and military service - stories that would have been unthinkable just five years ago - Karbovsky has become a cult figure whose cool cynicism castigates the country's chronic social and economic disarray...
...Drums." An oddment from Alexander Korda in the late '30s; the Raj and Great Game, with Sabu truckling to The Man and, as so often in films of the era, an astonishingly blithe and racist narrative wherein all enemies of the British colonials are mad cult leaders with snake pits and strange gods. The mad cult leaders are played by scrawny Jewish character actors darkened with shoe polish...
...When you leave a meeting, you know what you're supposed to do," says a top aide. And you leave on time. Aboard Air Force One last month, Bush appeared in the press section and bragged, "This is the On-Time Administration." He marks time so closely that a cult of punctuality has developed around him. "Pity the staffer who causes this President to be late," jokes a member of the Punctuariat. Running behind two weeks ago in Little Rock, Ark., Bush spent a paltry 23 minutes participating in a "leadership forum" in a packed school auditorium--cutting the event...
...confuse that with streaming video; these establishments look like 1950s coffee shops. Customers can watch the doughnuts rising, and stores flash their HOT DOUGHNUTS NOW signs when the snacks are done. That sugar-coated assault on the senses has won Krispy Kreme (fiscal 2001 revenues: $301 million) a near cult following since founder Vernon Rudolph fried up his first batch in a Winston-Salem shop...
Neither of these cleverly factitious offerings, both of course written by Rowling, will make much sense to those not already steeped in Potter lore. But if the books have only a cult appeal, that cult happens to be the most populous one in the history of commercial publishing. The whopping sales that seem certain to follow will buy more than entertainment; Rowling has earmarked her share of the proceeds to the Harry Potter Fund at Comic Relief U.K., a British charity devoted to children...