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Founded by a Belgian homeopath named Luc Jouret, the cult at first seemed to be a harmless New Age mishmash of astrology and health regimens professing to trace some of its ideas back to the Knights Templar, an order of Crusaders. By late 1994, the directions his sect was taking became horribly clear when Jouret and 52 fellow Templars were found dead as part of mass immolations in Switzerland and Quebec...
...whom equally little is recorded. One of the few sure facts is that he had 11 children, all of whom faced destitution after he died in 1675, at the depth of a financial depression that all but destroyed the Dutch art market. But his pictures don't show a trace of what must, at times, have been a domestic hell of squalling and brown diapers...
...discomfiting episode, Tom tries to set up his balding doctor pal Herb (Paul McCrane) with a lusty ad executive. When the plan seems to backfire, a crushed Herb laments that "it's all about looks, image, sex appeal." And then he adds, still without a trace of irony, "I thought it would be different when I got older. I thought people would judge me for my accomplishments. I saved a guy's life today, but nobody cares." Are those unexamining twentysomethings really so bad after...
...mottled, blue-gray marble, which floats above a circular "pond" of creamy limestone. It resembles a large weather vane, and, in fact, it is mounted on hidden ball bearings, so that it can turn. The form of the blade is very pure and yet somehow indeterminate; it has no trace of fins, gills or other fishy attributes. It is more like the shadow of a fish in perfectly clear water, a gray flicker cast on the riverbed below, whose pebbles are suggested by the white streaks and mottling within the stone itself. Thus one has the strange impression of both...
...Watergate. You might have known it would trace back to President Nixon somehow. After Nixon's resignation, Congress enacted more stringent taxpayer privacy laws to protect against future attempts to get confidential information on people the government didn't like...