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...were found in Tokyo's Kayabacho and Shinjuku stations, and irritating fumes were reported in two others. The devices were discovered before their timers reached the moment of detonation. A similar device was found in Shinjuku station, the world's busiest, last month. Police immediately suspected that theAum Shinrikyo cult was behind the new attacks,but cult leaders denied any involvement...
Police put together their picture of the group's plans from the interrogations of 34 senior cultists arrested since the subway attack. Asahara had long been predicting a 1997 world war in which the U.S.would try to take over Japan, and he was determined that the cult should survive it. By March 1994 that vision had altered dramatically. Asahara apparently had become interested less in surviving the war than in starting it, and for unexplained reasons he moved the timetable forward to 1995. He had funds -- a senior cult member admitted that Aum has assets of more than $1 billion...
...injured more than 200. Meanwhile, his wife Tomoko Matsumoto, 36, is in the process of taking control of the group, which has yet to see major defections. Fear may be a factor: reports say Aum members under arrest have confessed that a cement-grinding machine found at the cult's main commune was used to pulverize the bones of members who died during initiation rites or were otherwise done away with...
Well-intentioned and likable they are not. And yet the selfish, slothful heroines of the hit British TV show Absolutely Fabulous have attracted a cult of admirers worldwide. Produced for the BBC in 1993, the comedy has been exported to nearly 20 countries, including Israel and Japan. When the show aired on Comedy Central last July, its ratings were twice as high as anything the cable channel had run in prime time. The first 12 episodes have been in continual rerun ever since...
...what we are faced with now is the panting exploitation of all our worst inclinations. We see the cult of slut chic in which Madonna has been such an influence across all lines of race and style that video after video looks like a combination of film-school virtuosity and bimbo routines with a backbeat. We see films in which dramatic intensity is replaced by the shock of gore that takes place in a ruthless universe of amoral one-liners derived from James Bond...