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...most famous new religion is the Soka Gakkai, a sect based on Buddhism. Its leader is a man named Daisaku Ikeda, who is treated by his followers more like a monarch than a priest. Then there are more obscure figures who claim to have found the secret of universal happiness and peace for all time. Though these leaders may collect a great deal of money from their followers--and though the involvement of the Soka Gakkai in national politics through its own political party, the Komeito, is widely criticized--most of these religions are relatively harmless...
Your coverage of Harvard's ties with Soka University, which is trying to build a large campus in the Santa Monica Mountains National Park, is seriously inaccurate...
...Your article failed to describe Harvard's ties with Soka, a Japan-based religious organization whose current "curriculum" consists of English-as-a-second-language courses to Japanese nationals...
...never said that Soka uses the Harvard logo. I did say Soka uses the Harvard connection in all its public relations to overcome an image tarnished by scandals in Japan...
...Soka development proposed is opposed by every environmental group in California, by the U.S. National Park Service and Bruce Babbitt, by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, and by US Congress members like Anthony Beilenson, Howard Berman and Henry Waxman. Your story made no mention of this opposition...