Word: guru
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...City, claims he lost more than $455,000 by following the advice of a Wall Street superstar. He invested his life savings in the telecom stock Global Crossing. And he did it, he says, based on tainted research reports by former Salomon Smith Barney analyst Jack Grubman, a onetime guru who has been barred from the securities industry for life...
...moderate Islam, one that Lévy himself sees in a battle to the death with radical believers from al-Qaeda. He follows the journalist as he pursues a shadowy figure named Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani, a former Brooklyn-based imam whom Lévy calls a "guru" of bin Laden's. He meets Pearl's contacts, spends time in the unheated, two-room hovel where Pearl was held and murdered nine days after his kidnapping. "I decided the best way to tell this story was step by step, even if that meant contradictions," he says during an interview...
DIED. ROBERT ATKINS, 72, influential, hackle-raising weight-loss guru; of severe head injuries from a fall on an icy sidewalk on April 8; in New York City. He bucked convention in his 1972 best seller Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, which advised dieters to trash the fruit salad in favor of high-protein, high-fat goodies like bacon cheeseburgers and butter, arguing that without carbohydrates to burn, the body would burn its own fat. Many of the 30 million who have tried the diet swear by it. But his regimen rankled mainstream medical groups, which called it extreme and said...
Atlanta became Morris’ second home from December until March. He went down to Georgia to train with premier fitness guru Chip Smith, who specializes in getting NFL prospects ready for the league’s February “combine”—a comprehensive scouting weekend where coaches from all 32 pro teams examine nearly every player...
...what clubs to select, measures distances like a surveyor and reads the contours of greens as if they're her personal rice paddy. While my rivals drive heroically only to narrowly miss putts, I revel in rough and hunker in bunkers?and then drain epic putts thanks to my guru Sawat...