Word: cults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saturday's Cool": I was listening to it this morning, trying to go through and see whether the idea was to have a catalog of things people might have listened to growing up who are now listening to the Eggs record. Because one line is from a Blue Oyster Cult song, "Burn...
...Davidians' resort to gunfire, which may explain why only five of the 11 were found guilty of manslaughter. Four were adjudged to be innocent on all counts, and two were convicted of weapons charges. Pressed to explain the jury's decision, Jahn said that perhaps the panel thought the cult members "who died were the actual conspirators and the ((defendants)) were merely tagalongs...
However American juries may feel about some of the curious characters on the fringes of American life, they tend to reserve their real suspicion for the forces of law and order. That lesson was delivered again last Saturday in San Antonio, Texas, as 11 followers of cult leader David Koresh were acquitted of charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the deaths of four federal agents a year ago this week. Jubilant defense attorneys slapped each other on the back. Did it not matter that five defendants faced prison terms as long as 10 years for manslaughter? Said...
...federal jury in Texas acquitted 11 members of the Branch Davidian religious cult of murder and conspiracy to murder, convicting five of voluntary manslaughter and two on weapons charges. The case grew out of last year's raid on the cult's compound, which left four federal agents dead...
...blew it off. When you blow it off, somehow you're less responsible [for your grade]," she explains. "If you don't even try, it's like, 'You could have tried, and [you might have] been good enough." Kunde, an English concentrator, attributes this attitude to the Harvard ego-cult of excellence. "I think it kind of ties in to the whole Harvard fear of mediocrity," she speculates. "I think the worst thing you can say to someone at Harvard is, 'You're just average...