Word: coding
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...that wasn’t what I found. I discovered that Scientology is less a code of ethics than a how-to guide for the achievement of power and self-control. Sure, I felt that there was a lot of pseudo-science. But there was also the promise of actual superpowers. Follow his steps, Hubbard wrote, and you will not only achieve increased happiness and stress relief, but also telekinesis, extrasensory perception, and mental telepathy...
...teens, when his friends began using drugs and alcohol, Jimmy used the code of ethics he studied in one of L. Ron Hubbard’s books to stay straight. This never alienated him from his friends, whom he says he loved and enjoyed spending time with...
There is an unspoken code to all of this, first formed in the prep academies and magnet schools where so many were conditioned to this kind of privileged life, then refined and reinforced by the divisive institutions of our Harvard lives—from official policies and regulations to the student snobbery of final clubs and DormAid...
...DeGuerin promised a similar assault on Delay's behalf, and Monday he filed a motion to dismiss last week's indictment. There was no crime, DeGuerin said, because there was no conspiracy provision in the Texas Election Code until 2003, one year after DeLay's alleged actions. Within hours of DeGuerin's motion to dismiss, Earle convened a new grand jury, which issued a two-count indictment charging DeLay with money laundering under the state's criminal code...
...Turkey - and not just with nationalists. These include loosening restrictions on the use of the Kurdish language, and on Kurdish media, even as a new Kurdish insurgency is gaining momentum in the southeast. Demands that Turkey recognize Greek-controlled Cyprus and changes aimed at bringing Turkey's penal code in line with Europe's are also controversial, seen by many as undermining the integrity of the Turkish state. In a recent poll, 51% of Turks said that they now saw the E.U.-inspired reforms as a repeat of the widely reviled 1920 Treaty of Sèvres, which...