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Forty years ago, the Brattle Theatre held "Casablanca" festivals during Harvard's reading period. The "Bogie Cult" following was better than that of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." Students would crowd the place, sing "La Marseillaise" with the actors and emerge from the theatre, ready to take on their exams, if not the Germans...
Senator Sam Nunn has revealed that the Aum Shinri Kyo cult once tried to buy materials to make nuclear and chemical weapons. Nunn, ranking minority member of the Senate permanent subcommittee on investigations, told the New York Times that before the deadly nerve gas attack in Tokyo last March, the Japanese group had recruited two Russian nuclear scientists and tried to buy a $500,000 laser system that could have been used to measure plutonium. The sect, whose leader faces murder charges as a result of the subway attack, had also tried to buy 400 Israeli-made gas masks...
Science fiction? The apocalyptic vision of a doomsday cult? No, this disastrous scenario came last week from the sober pages of the journal Science. A team of U.S. and Chinese researchers studying the remains of volcanoes that began erupting 250 million years ago reported that according to radioactive dating, the eruptions coincided in geologic time with one of the great unexplained cataclysms in earth's history--a mass extinction at the end of the Permian period that wiped out up to 95% of all ocean-dwelling species and at least 70% of land-dwelling vertebrates...
While McCorvey was arguably never the voice of the revolution she began, the fact that she has defected from her cult status as revolutionary is a terrible blow to many advocates of women's rights. Even if McCorvey's change of mind won't overturn the decision of 1973, the country has lost one important liberal hero to the ranks of the ever-strengthening Right...
...featured acts took the stage: The Outlaws, Rick Derringer The Guess Who, Eddie Money, John Anderson and Doug Kershaw. Blue Oyster Cult, also scheduled to play, left before performing amid rumors of a fistfight...