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Enthusiastic readers from as far away as France and Peru came to see their literary guru, bearing gifts such as sunflowers, framed photographs and handwritten poetry. Many Harvard students said they were eagerly anticipating their first encounter with the founder of beat poetry...
Lerner is attempting to force what he calls a "Politics of Meaning" on America. He managed to seduce the President and First Lady into his cult of caring in 1992. When Hillary Clinton went public with the new-age guru's empathic proposals, she was reprimanded for trying to sell Lerner's newfangled socialism through a national healthcare plan. The Clintons have since put a great political distance between themselves and Mr. Lerner--to everyone's benefit...
...practices a form of Buddhism; but in reality it is a cult revolving around a long-haired, charismatic mystic, Shoko Asahara, a magnetic misfit who preaches that government efforts to obliterate his movement will coincide with the beginning of the end of the world. Throughout the week, the hidden guru pleaded his innocence via radio broadcast and videotape, then vanished, leaving behind three luxury cars in a Tokyo hotel parking lot and a $300,000 lawsuit seeking compensation for the police raids...
...compound: "Logically that may be so, but the volume of ingredients makes the place look more like a chemical factory than a religious compound." The police apparently suspected it looked like something more sinister still; on Thursday they announced for the first time that they wanted to question the guru about the subway attack...
...guru himself laid low. He released a videotape answering questions posed by the nhk television network in which he echoed his lawyers' earlier line, denying involvement in Kiyoshi Kariya's kidnapping and providing innocent household explanations for the seized chemicals. "I don't understand," he concluded, "why it's said that these can be used to make sarin." A second video was recorded for cult followers and played at 36 local chapters. In it Asahara claimed that Aum members, including himself, had been the object of a poison-gas attack. The origin was "unmistakably...