Word: prospect
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...Scientology was something like Dale Carnegie," Lottick says. "I now believe it's a school for psychopaths. Their so-called therapies are manipulations. They take the best and brightest people and destroy them." The Lotticks want to sue the church for contributing to their son's death, but the prospect has them frightened. For nearly 40 years, the big business of Scientology has shielded itself exquisitely behind the First Amendment as well as a battery of high-priced criminal lawyers and shady private detectives. (See the top 10 religion stories...
...secret talks with U.S. officials, Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim opposition leaders have been told that Saddam Hussein could be replaced by a pro-West military junta sometime this summer. The prospect has prompted some Shi'ites to discard their historic anti-U.S. stance in the hope of taking part in a power-sharing arrangement with a future military regime. "We can get on with the Americans," asserts a European-based opposition leader. "We worked closely with the Russians for 40 years. What did it get us? Garbage: antiquated weapons, outdated industrial goods and a lame economy...
...Great Pretender. London's respected Independent newspaper reported April 1 that Arthur Wynd, a farmer claiming to be the illegitimate son of Edward VIII's "forgotten" twin brother, was challenging Queen Elizabeth II's right to be monarch. As outrage grew over the prospect of a royal DNA test, the paper admitted that it had made up the whole thing...
...says he plans to retire in August, an utterly tantalizing prospect for pundits, pollsters, politicos, agents and headhunters. "I'll try and write a book," he muses. "I don't have the first line. Maybe, 'I was born at a very early age . . .' How's that?" He will play grand marshal at the Kentucky Derby next month, and talks of becoming a first-class salmon fisherman and improving his sporting-clays shooting...
...course, two free weeks at the end of classes is a welcome prospect for students who spend 80 hours a week on their extracurriculars. But it's probably not the best way to get a good education. Reading is assigned to correspond to lectures and discussions, not to be completed in a two-week cramming session after the course has ended. That defeats the purpose...