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Meet the Heroes of Early Scientology Reporting

by Longreads February 16, 2011October 19, 2022

Meet the Heroes of Early Scientology Reporting Then came the six-part expose published June 24th through 29th, 1990, in the Los Angeles Times, a story that conclusively divided the wheat from the chaff where Scientology rumors were concerned. Joel Sappell and Robert W. Welkos spent five years on the story and it was, and still […]

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Meet the Heroes of Early Scientology Reporting

by Longreads February 16, 2011October 19, 2022

Meet the Heroes of Early Scientology Reporting Then came the six-part expose published June 24th through 29th, 1990, in the Los Angeles Times, a story that conclusively divided the wheat from the chaff where Scientology rumors were concerned. Joel Sappell and Robert W. Welkos spent five years on the story and it was, and still […]

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Our Desperate, 250-Year-Long Search for a Gender-Neutral Pronoun

by Longreads January 8, 2011October 19, 2022

Our Desperate, 250-Year-Long Search for a Gender-Neutral Pronoun I asked a ton of people, and while there were a few in favor of singular “they,” this exchange with my old friend Michael, a San Francisco musician, composer and poet (and executive, by day) is representative: Me: Do you write “she” for indeterminate pronoun? What do […]

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