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...outside Jeddah or Riyadh, and that the whole picture of royal carnality in the film is a gross distortion. Reports TIME'S Beirut bureau chief William Stewart: "In Saudi Arabia, of all places, such a scene is unimaginable. By and large, the Saudi rulers are staunch Wahhabis, a sect with in Islam roughly akin to the Puritans. No doubt the thought of sexual dalliance must occur to some princesses (there are a lot of them), but that does not make Jeddah or Riyadh an Arabian Nights version of La Dolce Vita...
There are hundreds more such groups, some tiny and short-lived, others worldwide networks with generations of growth behind them. Down on the South Shore, members of the Nichiren Shoshu Academy, an offshoot of a 13th century Japanese Buddhist sect, pursue enlightenment by frequent chanting of Nam Myoho Renge Kyo. In Allston, Members of the Cambridge Zen Center (a perfect koan: why is the Cambridge Center in Allston?) meet for chanting of the Heart Sutra, talks on the way of Buddha, and "just sitting." The Bahais, a group formed in Persia and brought...
DIED. Levi Jitzhak Grunwald, 86, the Tzehlemer Rebbe, leader of a minor sect of Hasidim in Brooklyn, who touched the lives of all observant American Jews by requiring enforcement of the most rigorous standards for the preparation of kosher food; in New York City. Born in what is now the Soviet Ukraine, Grunwald was grand rabbi of Tzehlem, a town in northern Austria, when in 1938 he led his congregation to the U.S. to escape Nazi persecution; later he aided the postwar resettlement of many Hasidic Jews, whose men wear broad-brimmed black hats, grow their sideburns into long curls...
WORCESTER, Mass.--You had to figure it would end some bizarre way. A game that saw a total of 21 walks by two pitching staffs, a hitting record for Holy Cross shortstop Ronnie Perry, snow flurries in the sixth inning, and more sacrifice attempts than a prehistoric religious sect couldn't end in a routing fashion...
...Mormon beliefs that Father, Son and Holy Spirit are separate gods with the first two inhabiting human bodies, and that male church members may become gods themselves in the afterlife. The Reorganized Church believes in a spiritual Trinity and denies that men become gods. But the Missouri sect is far from Protestant. Among other things, it has the wrong Bible. Besides Smith's Book of Mormon and later revelations to church presidents, it uses Smith's own "inspired" Bible, which includes a prediction of his prophethood...