Word: guru
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...cool, so very this minute. It's the exercise cum meditation for the new millennium, one that doesn't so much pump you up as bliss you out. Yoga now straddles the continent - from Hollywood, where $20 million-a-picture actors queue for a session with their guru du jour, to Washington, where, in the gym of the Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and 15 others faithfully take their class each Tuesday morning...
...Oprah Winfrey, arbiter of moral and literary betterment for millions of American women, devoted a whole show to the benefits of yoga earlier this month, with guest appearances by Turlington and stud-muffin guru Rodney Yee. Testimonials from everyday yogis and yoginis clogged the hour: I lost weight; I quit smoking; I conquered my fear of flying; I can sleep again; it saved my marriage; it improved my daughter's grades and attitude. "We are more centered as a team," declared the El Monte Firefighters of Los Altos Hills, Calif...
AILING. SUZANNE SOMERS, 54, ebullient actress, fitness guru and diet-book author; with breast cancer. Against her doctors' advice, Somers is forgoing traditional chemotherapy, pursuing instead an untested homeopathic treatment...
...Hardball guru and Baseball Tonight analyst Peter Gammons appeared at the Kennedy School of Government last night to discuss the role of baseball in American society. Harvard second baseman Faiz Shakir had the honor of introducing Gammons at the start of the event, which was sponsored by the Institute of Politics. Gammons’ talk addressed some of the game’s more beleaguered stars, including one who Shakir knows quite well—maligned Cardinals southpaw Rick Ankiel...
Those who have worked with White House strategist KARL ROVE can't say when he last took a vacation. Even gripped by a severe cold during the campaign, Rove was hooting into his headset. But this week the political guru will enjoy some R. and R. in Florida. He has little choice. This is a relaxed and productive White House (Damn it!), and chief of staff ANDY CARD wants it to stay that way. Top-level staff members--most of whom lost their postelection break to the Florida fiasco--are being told they must take time off. Card needles...