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...extensive offices, factories and businesses of Aum in search of evidence and arrested dozens of lower-ranking members on a variety of minor charges. They discovered that Aum had as many as 30,000 members in Russia, where the group bought chemical-weapons detection gear, and owned a ranch in Australia, where the sarin gas was tested on sheep. For fear of being seen to be treading on religious freedom, Japanese police were reluctant to question key Aum figures until they had clinching evidence of their guilt. However, after Hideo Murai, a top Aum science official, was murdered on April...
...need the damage control," Coffey said. "Everybody is riding their high horse and nobody is making sure the cows don't leave the ranch...
...they are to embrace tax caps-have yet to agree on the proper role of private funds. For now, the debate is local-and intensely heated. "We've looked at the issue of equity over the years, and we've been stymied,'' says Bob Early, principal of the Taylor Ranch School in Venice, Florida, which raises about $20,000 annually. "This is a case of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. Parents want their efforts to benefit their kids, and any program to redistribute funds is not at all popular...
Will Harvard make the NCAA Tournament? Don't bet the ranch on it. But does it have a chance...
...turmoil grew worse when former California Supreme Court Judge William Clark, the leader of the boardroom putsch that removed Agee six weeks ago, resigned last week as acting chairman to return to his consulting business and his horse ranch in California. Clark, who once served as Ronald Reagan's National Security Adviser, said he had achieved his goals of exposing the company's financial woes and putting in place a new management team. Also departing was Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser, who, like Clark, became a director just last year. Remaining members of the company's beleaguered...