Word: guru
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...were, and we continue to be. Consider this year's ubiquitous insta-scripture, Who Moved My Cheese?, a 94-page handbook on success that currently tops three major best-seller lists--those of the Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly and USA Today. The work of M.D. turned management guru Spencer Johnson, whose One Minute Manager sold more than 7 million copies, the book has become the literary pet rock of the new economy...
...just as likely to be the high flyers with the dot-com dream jobs. Not only that, it's suddenly no longer a surprise to find Indians in the pantheon of (thinking) America's celebrities. From publisher Sonny Mehta and McKinsey & Co. managing director Rajat Gupta to alternative health guru Deepak Chopra and Academy Award-nominated director M. Night Shyamalan ("The Sixth Sense"), the influence of Indian immigrants over American society is growing, not least because tens of millions of Americans make daily use of an Internet whose growth and maintenance has relied heavily on Indian brainpower...
Actor, activist and aerobics guru Jane Fonda challenged Harvard to study the victimization and empowerment of teenage girls in a speech at the Graduate School of Education last night...
...wait some time before any regimen gets an official stamp of approval, although government officials have indicated an interest in establishing some sort of oversight. But until that happens, doctors urge caution and common sense. And back in the land of quick weight loss, it's every diet guru for himself...
...could feel our faces burn from the sweltering lights and from the knowledge that we had no right to be in the middle of an NBC show proffering wisdom on the primaries. We write for FM, not The New Republic. Noah Oppenheim '00, the closest we had to a guru on political affairs, was the spokesman. The rest of us had to try and look intellectual. With the first notes of music, Chris started the program: "John McCain stole the show from George W. Bush for the Republican Party, and it looks like George can't use Mummy and Daddy...