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...assembled a star-studded roster of followers by aggressively recruiting and regally pampering them at the church's "Celebrity Centers," a chain of clubhouses that offer expensive counseling and career guidance. Adherents include screen idols Tom Cruise and John Travolta, actresses Kirstie Alley, Mimi Rogers and Anne Archer, Palm Springs mayor and performer Sonny Bono, jazzman Chick Corea and even Nancy Cartwright, the voice of cartoon star Bart Simpson. Rank-and-file members, however, are dealt a less glamorous Scientology...
...come to the fore in recent weeks because of several stories the Times has chosen to run in quick succession. By far the most serious surround the paper's treatment of the woman who has accused William Kennedy Smith of raping her at the Kennedy family's retreat in Palm Beach, Fla., in March. One day after the NBC Nightly News disclosed her name, with an elaborate justification, the Times abandoned its own long-standing practice of withholding the names of sex-crime victims and followed suit...
FOOTNOTE: *TIME has respected the privacy of rape victims in the past, including those in the New York City jogger and Palm Beach cases, and will continue to do so unless a compelling argument to the contrary exists...
Ernest Hemingway wrote: "The most complicated subject that I know, since I am a man, is a man's life." Ted Kennedy is a complicated man. The picture of him as Palm Beach boozer, lout and tabloid grotesque is one version. He has other versions -- more interesting selves. Alcohol, or some other compulsion, may drive him now and then to bizarre and almost infantile behavior. But Ted Kennedy also is a remarkable and serious figure...
...Capitol Hill restaurants, notably a favorite, La Brasserie, with Connecticut's Senator Christopher Dodd. Stories also abound of a drunken Kennedy making passes at women and, in one case, having sex with a woman lobbyist on the floor of a private room in La Brasserie. The latest reports from Palm Beach -- those involving Ted anyway -- suggest behavior that is merely a bit off: taking the younger generation out drinking in clubs in the middle of the night, maybe wandering around the house without his trousers...