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Dec 14, 2004
Cruise ripped for plugging Scientology — UPI
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UPI NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (UPI) – Tom Cruise apparently won't win any prizes for using last week's Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo as a platform to plug Scientology.
The "Collateral" star and Oprah Winfrey co-hosted Saturday's event, which featured such performers as Cyndi Lauper, Patti Labelle and Diana Krall, MSNBC reported Tuesday.
"One of the things that we believe in (as Scientologists) is peace, freedom," Cruise said in promoting the concert, which will be broadcast in the United States Dec. ...
Dec 9, 2004
The Rich vs. the Addicts — OC Weekly (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Nan Kappeler Source:
OC Weekly (California) Newports Balboa Peninsula has become the place to go when youve got no place else to go. Longtime residents say theyre fighting for their way of life. Addicts struggling to get clean say theyre fighting for their lives The "convicts" and "liars" don'tagree on much, but they seem to agree on this: the tension started early in 2003. That's when Narconon opened a second rehabilitation house for recovering substance abusers behind the oceanfront rehab house it already operated at 18th Street ...
Nov 29, 2004
Scientology settlement puts IRS in a kosher pickle — Law.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Marty Graham Source:
Law.com Tax lawyers are watching a trial in Los Angeles that pits an orthodox Jewish family against the Internal Revenue Service over whether tuition for religious education is deductible – based in part on a "secret" settlement between the IRS and the Church of Scientology. "It's not clear that [plaintiffs] Michael and Marla Sklar will win, but if they do, it may well mean that millions of families will be able to deduct some portion of private religious school education," said professor ...
Nov 4, 2004
Battlefield New Haven — New Haven Advocate
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Author(s):
Denali Dasgupta Source:
New Haven Advocate Scientology: religion, sect, cult or scam? Whichever it is, its making big moves in Westville. From a car coasting up Whalley Avenue in Westville, it's easy to miss the yellow banner across the old Hallock's furniture store. Look closer: It announces the impending arrival of the Church of Scientology. The church is now housed in a small storefront a block away—but bigger things are coming. Since purchasing a small storefront from the adjacent Frame Shop 20 years ago, the Westville Scientologists ...
Oct 22, 2004
Curtain goes up on Scientology — Guardian Unlimited
Type: Press
Author(s):
Dan Glaister Source:
Guardian Unlimited At last, audiences can discover the secrets of Scientology without being zapped by the fabled electropsychometer, writes Dan Glaister It is the show that has everything: music, dancing, children, celebrities. Hey, it even has threatening phone calls and the hint of divine retribution. A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant opened in Los Angeles last week after a successful run in New York at the end of last year. The play is pretty much what the title implies: an unauthorised pageant ...
Oct 2, 2004
Church's drug program flunks S.F. test / Panel of experts finds Scientology's Narconon lectures outdated, inaccurate — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Sep 20, 2004
Scientology: Church now claims more than 8 million members — Deseret News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Elaine Jarvik Source:
Deseret News The Church of Scientology is 50 years old this year, having survived its skeptics and detractors, an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service and John Travolta's box-office flop, "Battlefield Earth," based on a science fiction novel by the church's founder L. Ron Hubbard.
The church's 50th anniversary makes it a young religion as far as religions go but also attests to its staying power.
According to Scientology headquarters in Los Angeles, the church now claims more than 8 million members in ...
Sep 13, 2004
Smaller firms jump on full-system wagon — Plastics News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Roger Renstrom Source:
Plastics News In the media business, small- and medium-size processors are changing with the times. Requirements of these smaller firms differ from those of major optical-media players such as Technicolor, Cinram, Ritek, Sonopress and Sony. Suppliers see a trend for the smaller firms to invest in faster systems for disc replication and, in some cases, a transition away from tape duplication. Some have selected Toyo, Netstal or Sumitomo machines for the molding aspect of an advanced optical-media manufacturing line. Production system supplier M2 ...
Sep 12, 2004
No more Mr Nice Guy — The Observer (London, UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Neil Strauss Source:
The Observer (London, UK) After a lifetime playing wholesome, all-American heroes, Tom Cruise has finally discovered his dark side. He's also ditched his publicist, moved in with his sisters and is looking for the third Mrs Cruise. So is Hollywood's leading man having a middle-youth crisis? Interview by Neil Strauss
[Picture: "What sinister ambitions lie concealed behind that smile? ... Tom Cruise. Photograph: Domenico Stinellis / AP"]
Want to meet my mom?' Tom Cruise asks as we walk through the halls of the Celebrity Center, ...
Sep 1, 2004
Is Scientology in your schools? — The Humanist
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robin Jacobs Source:
The Humanist For obvious reasons, the lauding of religious leaders isn’t supposed to be practiced in U.S. public schools, at least not as a class activity. Yet one widely used school program concludes by having students applaud Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. The program is called Narconon, and it has notable Scientology links. The state of California is now in the midst of a three-month investigation of the Narconon Drug Prevention and Education program with an eye to possibly barring it from the ...
Aug 25, 2004
Narconon banned from S.F. schools // Anti-drug teachings tied to Scientology called inaccurate — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Nanette Asimov Source:
San Francisco Chronicle (California) An anti-drug program with ties to the Church of Scientology will be barred from San Francisco classrooms because of concerns about its scientific accuracy, city schools Superintendent Arlene Ackerman said Tuesday. Ackerman's decision followed a review of the Narconon Drug Prevention & Education Program by school health officials, who found that some of its teachings were not "100 percent accurate." "We are going to withhold the opportunity for Narconon to be in our schools," Ackerman said as thousands of students prepared ...
Jul 19, 2004
Scientology's town // Striving for mainstream, building new connections — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert Farley ,
Jennifer Farrell Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) A local lawyer and political consultant are hired to help break down barriers for Scientology. It was a sticky decision and everyone in the room knew it. Bennetta Slaughter, the charismatic businesswoman whose tireless committee work had impressed so many, was being nominated to the Clearwater Regional Chamber of Commerce board of directors. "Do we really want one on the board?" several asked. By "one" they meant: a Scientologist. Board members worried that the chamber's rank and file might quit in ...
Jul 18, 2004
About Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jul 18, 2004
Scientology's footprint in downtown Clearwater — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jul 18, 2004
Scientology's town — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jul 16, 2004
Church of Scientology back to the future — Business First of Buffalo
Type: Press
Author(s):
James Fink Source:
Business First of Buffalo The Church of Scientology's new Buffalo headquarters is a work of love.
A lot of love.
When the doors opened on the historic Main Street building last November, it marked both the completion of a cycle for the late-1800s building and a new chapter for the religious order. That both intersect, is in itself, sort of divine intervention with everything lining up the right way at the right time.
"You could say we've put the building back to its original use," ...
Jul 15, 2004
[Narconon License Agreement] — Association for Better Living and Education (ABLE)
Jul 6, 2004
Rape at drug-treatment center alleged — Santa Cruz Sentinel
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tovin Lapan Source:
Santa Cruz Sentinel WATSONVILLE — A woman who says she was raped at a drug-treatment center has sued Narconon of Northern California and its parent company, Narconon International, alleging she was assaulted by a staff member while undergoing treatment in November 2003. The suit alleges that when notified of the assault, staff at the Watsonville treatment center failed to respond in an appropriate manner and took the unidentified, out-of-state woman out of treatment. The Sentinel is not identifying the plaintiff because of the nature ...
Jul 2, 2004
CALIFORNIA State to evaluate Narconon // Research group tapped to look at anti-drug teachings — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Nanette Asimov Source:
San Francisco Chronicle (California) State schools chief Jack O'Connell has asked a research group known for its rigorous reviews of health curriculum to spend three months evaluating the Narconon anti-drug program, whose classroom instruction has been linked to the Church of Scientology. At a press conference today in East Los Angeles, O'Connell will announce that the California Healthy Kids Resource Center, a public agency in Hayward, will look at what Narconon is teaching thousands of students in its hourlong presentations at dozens of schools each ...
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