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...height of Shoko Asahara's power as leader of the apocalyptic Aum Shinrikyo cult, followers paid exorbitant sums for the honor of drinking the guru's blood. Since 1995, when Aum carried out a poison-gas attack that killed 12 people in the Tokyo subway, the rest of Japan has been baying for his blood as well. Last Friday, after a nearly eight-year trial, a Tokyo judge finally sentenced Japan's most reviled man to hang for masterminding the subway attack and 15 other killings by the cult. With 11 of Asahara's former followers already sentenced to death...
...Rhodes Scholarships are endowed through the will of Cecil Rhodes, a British philanthropist, who founded the honor...
...centuries of Gospel tradition. Anyway, in the Pasolini film, with Italians chasing Italians, the curse seems one not of race or religion but of clan. Besides, Pasolini, a poet before he was a filmmaker, would be unlikely to excise a controversial line from a text he felt bound to honor...
...while the ECAC horse race is attracting most everyone’s thoughts, the Crimson will pause after Saturday night’s game to honor its nine-member Class of 2004 with a Senior Night program. This marks the first senior class at Harvard to be both recruited and coached by Mazzoleni for a full four years...
...Academy Awards are going to be amazingly boring. With the major categories pretty much locked up (Best Film: Lord of the Rings, Best Actor: Sean Penn, Best Actress: Charlize Theron, etc.), and with no known child rapist in the running for this year’s directing honor, viewers will have to rely on Billy Crystal to boost the show’s humor and intelligence quotient...