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...Moment of silence observed at a Tokyo subway station last week on the 10th anniversary of Aum Shinrikyo's sarin gas attack, which killed 12 and wounded 5,500 1,650 Number of followers of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, now known as Aleph, down from 11,000 at the time of the attack...
...jury heard, this was a man so obsessed with saving a buck that he sniffed out $18,000 in cost overruns in a $3 billion budget, fretted about coffee-filter expenses and wanted the bottled-water machine filled with tap water. Penny pinching like that had made him a cult hero on Wall Street--and an improbable dupe to a jury...
While the idiosyncratic disc jockey was a cult figure in the U.S., he enjoys superstar status in his native country, where for the last 37 years his voice graced the airwaves for BBC’s Radio 1. Peel would often invite artists to perform on his show, with the recorded material invariably being released (not always officially) to the public under the moniker “Peel Sessions...
...critics that panned Diary didn’t seem to understand the film’s important social function or its cult appeal. Their efforts to critique the film according to the usual measures of genre, tone, and theme failed to capture essence of what made the movie so appealing and vital...
According to Steven F. Price, President of Charity Denim, Blue Cult jeans, along with Citizens, were the most popular. Price, who co-founded the company last spring, said he could not have been happier with the sale. He had been in the denim business for about three-and-a-half years before starting Charity Denim, and he believes that the company is a logical conception because “sororities tend to be conscious about their clothes and are also very involved in philanthropy...