Word: sues
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...physician, to start his own investigation of the church. "We thought 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...
...church's most fearsome advocates are its lawyers. Hubbard warned his followers in writing to "beware of attorneys who tell you not to sue . . . the purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win." Result: Scientology has brought hundreds of suits against its perceived enemies and today pays an estimated $20 million annually to more than 100 lawyers...
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...Harvard there was no one player who dominated the scoring, but Gaffney and Sue Carls each had two goals apiece...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Richard Behar, Lisa Beyer, Janice Castro, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Nancy R. Gibbs, Richard Lacayo, Michael D. Lemonick, Thomas McCarroll, Richard N. Ostling, Priscilla Painton, Sue Raffety, Janice C. Simpson, Jill Smolowe, Susan Tifft, Anastasia Toufexis, Richard Zoglin...