Word: guru
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...obsessed with danger. The religion, nominally Buddhist but really a hodgepodge of ascetic disciplines and New Age occultism, focused on supposed threats from the U.S., which he portrayed as a creature of Freemasons and Jews bent on destroying Japan. The conspiracy's weapons: sex and junk food. The guru's sermons predicted the end of the world sometime between 1997 and 2000, and began citing the specific peril of poison-gas attacks...
...sportswear company was turning out Jordan 45 jerseys. Sometimes with Jordan, you don't know where the reality ends and the commercial begins. Asked what playing minor-league baseball did for him, he said, "It helped me realize what was important to me. It was like going to my guru." The reference, of course, was to the Gatorade ad in which a guru advises him, "Life is a sport. Drink it up." At $1 for a 12-oz. bottle in Plainfield, Indiana...
Actually, the guru is wrong. Sport is a parquet floor, with crossing patterns of excellence and exploitation. Tyson's story is perhaps the best example of that. When legendary boxing maestro Cus D'Amato discovered Tyson in an upstate New York reformatory, he was a bad kid from Brooklyn. D'Amato didn't exactly turn him into a saint, but he did channel Tyson's aggression into boxing. D'Amato died in 1985, but Tyson continued to improve as a fighter and as a human being. After he knocked out Pinklon Thomas in their 1987 championship fight, Tyson went over...
Newt Gingrich took a beating in absentia at the Institute of Politics last night as a panel of political cartoonists likened him to everything from a club-wielding giraffe hunter to fitness guru Susan Powter...
...must increasingly share the stage with the yen and the mark as a worldwide reserve currency. "There is little doubt that the dollar is in transition to a less dominant status in the global financial system," says David Hale, senior economist for Kemper Financial Services, based in Chicago. Investment guru Jimmy Rogers likens the situation to the pound's decline: "When sterling started losing its role as the world's reserve currency, especially after the Second World War, there was a sterling crisis every year. It was a constant and ongoing thing. We are somewhere into that process...