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...trafficking," said James Milford, the DEA's deputy administrator. "All our sources tell us it's business as usual. This guy didn't die in a power struggle but suffered a sudden death when most people in his organization were getting along." Even if the Carrillo organization were to splinter, there is neither a shortage of product nor dearth of entrepreneurs eager to exploit the U.S. cocaine market...
...news in the wake of the deaths. As far as anyone has been able to determine, the Heaven's Gate cult used the Net mainly to memorialize itself, or to generate freelance income by producing commercial web pages for local firms. But a growing number of other cults and splinter groups use the Net to try to recruit new members, just as advertisers use the Net to sell products to consumers. Unlike TV or radio, the Net offers a very personal way to contact the audience. Some people are particularly vulnerable to email and chatroom conversations with folks they...
...news in the wake of the deaths. As far as anyone has been able to determine, the Heaven's Gate cult used the Net mainly to memorialize itself, or to generate freelance income by producing commercial web pages for local firms. But a growing number of other cults and splinter groups use the Net to try to recruit new members, just as advertisers use the Net to sell products to consumers. Unlike TV or radio, the Net offers a very personal way to contact the audience. Some people are particularly vulnerable to email and chatroom conversations with folks they...
...were representing the Goldmans, the next issue was how to deal with John Kelly, the lawyer representing the Nicole Brown Simpson estate, and Michael Brewer, the lawyer representing Sharon Rufo, Ronald Goldman's birth mother, who first filed the wrongful-death suit. Dissension and egos at first threatened to splinter the case, but Petrocelli soothed and cajoled. Besides, it was his large firm that was footing the bill; none of the other lawyers had the resources to carry a case of this magnitude. The deal was to let Mitchell, Silberberg call the shots, and let Petrocelli be the "quarterback." Kelly...
...boasting, however, Madalyn's darker traits--and his own--were taking an increasing toll. They did not restrict their belligerence to the political sphere. "The Murray-O'Hairs," says a movement observer, "were factories of rancor." Almost from its inception, American Atheists spawned splinter groups, usually led by people Madalyn had wooed, employed and finally alienated, often viciously and profanely. "She went through people like popcorn," says Anne Gaylor, who in 1978 became head of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, based in Madison, Wisconsin. "People realized, 'We can do this on our own,'" says Kerns. Madalyn, without irony, told offenders...