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...investigation that resulted in Von Bülow's indictment. Among the circumstantial evidence expected to be presented at the trial: a small black bag containing drugs and three hypodermic needles, one of them with traces of insulin, that was retrieved from Von Bülow's closet by Alexander and a private investigator...
...developed a way to preserve elements of their faith. Adopting a complex sham, they worshiped publicly at Buddhist temples, then slipped away at night to hold secret Christian prayer meetings. At home, they prayed overtly before Buddhist and Shinto altars, but their real altar became the nan do garni (closet god), innocuous-looking bundles of cloth in which revered Christian statues and medallions were hidden. For 2½ centuries, their fierce faith endured, but it inevitably also turned inward. Because their prayers and rituals had to be transmitted secretly among illiterate peasants, they slowly became garbled. Over the years...
Today on Ikitsuki, the center of the Kakure population, there are 80 house churches with their closet god. At such public ceremonies as Kakure funerals, a Buddhist priest is always asked to officiate, but, says one of them, "these people make sure to give a prayer in secret to erase the effect of ours." The sect's leader, the Ojisama (Revered Uncle), conducts a baptism-like ceremony with water drawn from a site of 17th century martyrdom...
...down by the slogans of his profession, so cut off from reality that he longs to dismiss the product entirely: "A structuralist's dream--advertising for its own sake!" There is a psychological as well as social basis for Bab's paranoia: her mother, whom she locks in the closet and taunts with lines like. "I'm fucking the dog, Mom" comes out and announces. "Children were given to us by you-know-who so that we could make order out of our own lives." It's a chilling vision, perhaps closer to the '60s than the '80s, but still...
...team, the Rhodes-scholar finalists, like B.C.'s Jim Sweeney. Sweeney testified as a Government witness against Kuhn and the other defendants; he has admitted accepting money through Kuhn but denied going along with any fix. When Sweeney spoke of shamefully tacking the $500 in his closet, it recalled Ed Warner of C.C.N.Y. three decades ago, hiding the money in a shoe-box in an aunt's basement. They must have felt about the same...