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...Dial Om for Murder" was the catchy title in Rolling Stone. The 1987 article told of drugs, sexual abuse and bodies buried helter-skelter at New Vrindaban, the 3,000-acre community built in West Virginia by members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, better known as Hare Krishnas. The journalist-authors, John Hubner of the San Jose Mercury News and Lindsey Gruson of the New York Times, who teamed up for the piece, have apparently found the association rewarding. Monkey on a Stick is their expanded, though not necessarily deepened, account of the Hindu religious movement that started...
...time and the place were right. The Lost (not to mention loud) Generation of the '60s took up the sect's chant ("Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Hare, Hare; Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama, Rama, Hare, Hare"). Within ten years, and with a little help from the Beatles, the Hare Krishnas became a worldwide cult, flaunting millions of dollars and commanding thousands of devotees whose shaved heads, saffron robes and mantra became familiar on street corners from Times Square to the Ginza...
...authors are frank about their methodology. They are also quick to insert disclaimers that their expose of New Vrindaban is meant to discredit the whole Hare Krishna movement. But it does, mainly because their approach focuses almost exclusively on bizarre and scandalous events. Following the 1977 death of founder A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, each of his closest disciples split off to establish his own turf. For example, Hans Kary of Hoboken, N.J., headed for Berkeley, where, as Hansadutta, he became a Krishna guru who financed rock-'n'-roll albums and amassed an arsenal of firearms...
...defense is led, appropriately, by the team captain, Don Peterson. Peterson leads the team in sacks with six, four shy of '87 Captain Kevin Dulsky's record. The other guys up front are Jim Bell, Greg Gicewicz (famous for his interception against Holy Cross), Mike Murphy and Ray O'Hare...
...limits at O'Hare have delayed only a few dozen more flights a day than usual. But winter weather could seriously escalate the delays and create backups from Minneapolis to Detroit...