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Dec 14, 2008
Clearwater business owner focused on growth amid gloom — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Jeff Harrington
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Joy Gendusa spins through the converted NAPA Auto Parts warehouse; Lulu, her white Maltese, scampers at her feet in a valiant effort to keep pace. Over the din of ringing phones, she dishes updates about dozens of employees, many of them related. "And that's her stepmother over there," she gestures. "The girl next to her, her mother works here too." PostcardMania, a direct-mail company that prints and ships postcard advertisements on behalf of businesses nationwide, is 10 years old with 160 ...
Jun 29, 2008
Scientology is focus of flap over Will Smith's new school — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Carla Rivera
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
In Los Angeles' rarefied world of private schools, where tuitions are high, academics are tough and educational philosophy is taken seriously, the newest member of the tribe is getting the kind of breathless attention reserved for a music or film star. That may be because the founders of New Village Academy are themselves such stars: Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith. Entertainers have long flocked to private schools on the Westside and in the San Fernando Valley, where campuses ...
Jun 1, 2008
Understanding the agreements and controversies surrounding childhood psychopharmacology — Focus
Type: Press
Author(s): Erik Parens, Josephine Johnston
Source: Focus
[Abstract] The number of children in the US taking prescription drugs for emotional and behavioral disturbances is growing dramatically. This growth in the use of psychotropic drugs in pediatric populations has given rise to multiple controversies, ranging from concerns over off-label use and long-term safety to debates about the societal value and cultural meaning of pharmacological treatment of childhood behavioral and emotional disorders. This commentary summarizes the authors' eight main findings from the first of five workshops that seek to understand ...
Jul 14, 1999
'Eyes' in focus — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Patrick Goldstein
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
Q&A: Tom Cruise, co-star of Stanley Kubrick's final opus, talks about the challenges and rewards of working with the director he says was wrongly labeled as an eccentric. When Stanley Kubrick was first wooing Tom Cruise about starring in "Eyes Wide Shut," the director learned that Cruise was a pilot, as Kubrick himself had been before he crash-landed one day and never flew again. So the most all-controlling cinema master of our time decided that if Cruise was going to zoom ...
Jun 22, 1996
Scientologists focus talks on spiritual freedom // Profiles in faith — Santa Barbara News-Press
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Type: Press
Author(s): Bob Barber
Source: Santa Barbara News-Press
Since its founding in 1954, the Church of Scientology has sparked some fear, mistrust and controversy. This doesn't surprise the Rev. Lee Holzinger, 38, minister of the Santa Barbara Church of Scientology. "We are different from other churches in many ways," he said. "How could anything come along that is so fundamentally important to life and society and not rouse controversy?" The church was involved in a 40-year battle with the Internal Revenue Service that ended Oct 1, 1993 when the ...
Oct 3, 1995
Straight, no chaser / Chick Corea prefers to focus on creative simplicity of jazz instead of mechanics and styles of playing — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Aug 10, 1995
Arlington man becomes focus of Internet copyright debate // Year-long fued with church ends in N. Arlington raid — Northern Virginia Sun (Arlington, VA)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Nita Rao
Source: Northern Virginia Sun (Arlington, VA)
U.S. marshals seized computer equipment and files Friday from an Arlington man charged with posting copyrighted materials on the Internet criticizing the Church of Scientology. The church has filed a lawsuit against Arnaldo Lerma, 44, of 6045 N. 26th Rd., and his Internet access provider, Vienna-based Digital Gateway Systems, claiming copyright infringement. The controversy which culminated in last week's raid began a year ago after church officials warned both Lerma and DGS to cease posting "confidential and unpublished" Scientology teachings. The ...
Apr 15, 1990
Leaders protest mental health center expansion — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Mayerene Barker
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
Eastern San Fernando Valley community and church leaders spoke out Saturday against plans to almost double the capacity of a residential mental health facility in Lake View Terrace. "We feel we've already been inundated with this type of facility," said Fred Taylor, president of Focus '90, an organization that is working with the Ministers Fellowship of the Greater San Fernando Valley to improve the area's image. "This area has become a slum, a dumping ground," said the Rev. James Wade, pastor ...
Jan 9, 1980
Individual life force is focus of Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 17, 1979
Part II: Scientology defined / Individual life is focus of Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Aug 29, 1978
Scientology Flagship shrouded in mystery // Vessel was focus of mutual suspicion between church, government — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Robert Gillette
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
On June 25, 1971, a young Colorado woman named Susan Meister died in an apparent suicide aboard the Apollo, the 3,280-ton flagship of the Church of Scientology and for nearly a decade the personal yacht of the church's founder, L. Ron Hubbard. In mid-July that year, according to State Department correspondence obtained by The Times, Miss Meister's father traveled from Colorado to the Moroccan port of Safi, 125 miles south of Casablanca, where the Apollo was then moored, to inquire into ...
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Other web sites with precious media archives. There is also a downloadable SQL dump of this library (use it as you wish, no need to ask permission.)   In May 2008, Ron Sharp's hard work consisting of over 1260 FrontCite tagged articles were integrated with this library. There are more contributors to this library. This library currently contains over 6000 articles, and more added everyday from historical archives.