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...thriving enterprise. Most cults fail to outlast their founder, but Scientology has prospered since Hubbard's death in 1986. In a court filing, one of the cult's many entities - the Church of Spiritual Technology - listed $503 million in income just for 1987. High-level defectors say the parent organization has squirreled away an estimated $400 million in bank accounts in Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Cyprus. Scientology probably has about 50,000 active members, far fewer than the 8 million the group claims. But in one sense, that inflated figure rings true: millions of people have been affected...
...them she is a doting den mother, turning stern only when things get bitchy. It's a tough job, juggling dozens of fragile egos along with her armored one, but she has balls enough for everybody. The crew is her moody brood, and she is Mama Madonna, single parent...
...according to Joann Ackman, the parent liaison at Cambridge's only high school, the Rindge and Latin School, parental opposition that may exist may be based on monetary considerations. Many students cannot afford to go to school during the summer months because they must take jobs to help support their financially pressed families, she says...
...Garamendi announced that his agents were seizing control of Executive Life, attorneys for his department were securing an order in superior court enabling him to place the insurer in a state-controlled conservatorship. Across town, at the modern glass-and-steel headquarters tower of the insurer's parent company, First Executive, Garamendi's agents informed chief executive Fred Carr that he no longer headed the Executive Life subsidiary. Addressing himself "to the schoolteachers and hardhats, secretaries and doctors" who are the insurer's customers, Garamendi pledged, "We are going to do everything in our power to see that your money...
...more than 600 pages the book digs up seemingly every tawdry anecdote, unflattering recollection or catty comment ever uttered about Nancy Reagan. The former First Lady was, in Kelley's account, a cold and uncaring parent, a manipulative social climber and an acquisitive arriviste -- who was nonetheless so cheap that she would recycle old gifts and send them to friends. In her Hollywood days, the book contends, Nancy Davis got parts because she was sleeping with MGM's head of casting. In Washington she was a ruthless Marie Antoinette who was the real power behind the President. She rejected...