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SENTENCED TO DEATH. SHOKO ASAHARA, 48, former leader of the religious sect that released sarin gas into the Tokyo subway in 1995; in Tokyo. The founder of Aum Shinrikyo, a cult that combined Buddhist and Hindu philosophies, was convicted of masterminding the attack that killed 12 and injured...
That disclaimer didn't satisfy critics. Indeed, the Korean breakthrough adds fuel to two different ethical debates at once. The first--whether cloning for reproduction should be allowed--is pretty well settled. Only a handful of loose-cannon scientists and members of the Raelian sect, who believe humans were created by aliens, openly favor human cloning. It is explicitly banned in many countries, including Korea...
...deadly virus like SARS. They don’t hold millions of peaceful oppositionists, minorities and low-level criminals in a vast slave-labor camp system (known as “Laogai”). They don’t systematically torture and kill practitioners of a meditation sect (Falun Gong). And, of most immediate concern for Harvard, they don’t lock up a pro-democracy activist like Kennedy School graduate Yang Jianli on fabricated charges and detain him incommunicado for more than a year...
Stephanie W. Levine ’00, who earned her Ph.D. in the field of American studies, recalls one of her many trips to the Hasidic community of Lubavitchers grouped in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Ardent followers of Orthodox Judaism, Lubavitchers form a sect of Hasidim especially known for their devoutness and desire to spread their doctrines to other Jews.As Levine sat in on a Hasidic synagogue on that trip, she says she noticed a young girl who prayed with particular fervor, and believed her to be “in the midst of a mystical experience...
...pledge allegiance to the nation—ensuring that the 31-word recitation, and appreciation for the nation united “under God,” would be forever engrained in their young, impressionable minds. Those seemingly innocuous memories, however, have since garnered new meaning, stirring a growing sect in the country to take issue with the pledge’s non-secular phrase...