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In case you were wondering, the online version of Moon's high school magazine The World and I is "free from gratuitous sex & violence," the site explains. (As if the print version were lurid or something.) Who are these un-gratuitous people? Here are some of the people involved with The World and I, the least-explored of Moon's publications.

* Managing editor/Washington Times contributor Morton A. Kaplan, a University of Chicago professor. A graduate of Reverend Moon's Professors' World Peace Academy, he may or may not be the same Morton A. Kaplan who penned a 1979 book called "Sensory Awareness and Psychic Manifestation."

* World and I Exec. editor Michael Marshall is the driven (pic at right) young head of Moon's "World Media Forum." Here is a TrueParents.org interview with him. The World Media Forum, of course, threw the bash Joe Bob Briggs recently wrote about -- hosting not only anchorman Sam Donaldson but the Moonies' Dr. Kwak, who gave a two-hour presentation about the deadly power of the "love organ."

* Lawrence Criner is head of The World and I's "Currents in Modern Thought" section, which has hosted some prominent journalists. He's also a Washington Times contributor who has written articles criticizing sex education as too permissive ("Tax Dollars, Drag Queens and the CDC"). How modern!

And that's all I have so far. The masthead is on the site waiting to be Googled. Go for it, and let me know if you find anything interesting.

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Russians are upset that the Unification Church is sponsoring a public school class called "The World and I." It was bad enough, this article says, that Moscow State U. now has an "L. Ron Hubbard Reading Room."