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...Poliakoff '00, a member of the Campus Life Committee, arranged for Brush Hill Transportation to drive buses from Johnston Gate to the Quad and on to Logan Airport...
Poliakoff himself was on a 9 a.m. Wednesday shuttle that was overbooked. The bus, with a capacity of 45, was sold out. When students without tickets showed up at Johnston Gate, the bus driver began selling tickets to students for $2 apiece, the regular price. Ten students, according to Poliakoff, were bumped from the bus because extra tickets were sold by the bus driver...
Today Humphrey--who prefers to be known by the name Rkkody--is running a Heaven's Gate Website where potential followers can buy videotapes of leader Do espousing his philosophy as well as gift items like Heaven's Gate mouse pads, NASA-style "Away Team" patches, "dishwasher-safe" mugs and T shirts emblazoned with the slogan WHAT IF THEY'RE RIGHT? In an E-mail interview with TIME, Rkkody claims that his site receives 1,000 hits a day but that he has sold "disgustingly few" of the merchandise items: "less than five mouse pads, no T shirts...
...Bell, is an expert at moving "distressed" properties, having previously consulted, he says, on the sales of homes where Nicole Simpson, JonBenet Ramsey and Sharon Tate passed away, as it were. Not afraid to confront his chief marketing obstacle head on, Bell has renamed the property the Heaven's Gate Mansion, or the Gate for short--which, he says, is at least preferable to its usual media label: "the death house." --Reported by Paul Krueger/San Diego and Margot Hornblower/Los Angeles...
...Brightest Light The heavens were lighted last spring by the magnificent Comet Hale-Bopp, which whizzed within 120 million miles of Earth. Countless people turned out and craned up to see it--among them 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult who took the comet as a sign that it was time to take their lives. That they did, leaving a dark blot on a brilliant event...