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- I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As…
- Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities. This is especially true where the population is young, idle, and bored; where…
- From the very beginning, when you go into Scientology your world narrows down very quickly.
- From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management…
- When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to…
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