Word: gurus
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...increasing frequency in the press and on the best-seller lists, run the professional gamut: from pop-culture chroniclers like Faith Popcorn ("cocooning") and Douglas Rushkoff (Cyberia) through digital-media stars like M.I.T.'s Nicholas Negroponte and the Institute for the Future's Paul Saffo to buttoned-down management gurus like Peter Drucker and John Naisbitt (Megatrends...
...practicing physician and Buddhist, I find Chopra's metaphors to be flowery, vague and frothy. We have witnessed the phenomenon of Indian gurus many times before. It is just another scheme to tap into the thirst for spiritual values felt by the American middle and upper classes. It will be interesting to see how long Chopra and his disciples last. HUNG T. VU Fremont, California...
...onetime history professor, Gingrich wanted influence as much as he wanted power. His recommended reading lists, the way he urges on listeners his favorite futurists and management gurus, are the hallmarks of a man for whom it isn't enough to get people to do things his way. He needs them to see things his way too. But while Gingrich gained a following within a segment of the Republican Party, his message stalled with the larger electorate. Lately he's a one-man version of the helpless superpower. The Contract with America is a suspended agreement, and Gingrich...
...stuck, then, for our morality gurus with Bill Bennett and Leviticus? Not necessarily. Carter could have advanced the cause of a secular morality if he'd bothered to give a little content to Step 1. Moral reflection, if it is to lead to moral results, has to consist of an exhaustive and empathetic assessment of the impact of one's actions on others, including even the despised and the outcast. If we define moral reflection this way, some good people might indeed be pro-choice and some might be pro-life, but none could be pro-genocide...
...period in Charles' youth, Earl Mountbatten, Philip's uncle and a tireless meddler in the family's affairs, acted in place of both Charles' parents. After Mountbatten's death came such gurus as South African-born writer Sir Laurens Van der Post. If Diana turned to various therapies, Charles explored exotic lore, became a "green" and an organic gardener. Before long the tabloids had him talking to his carrots at Highgrove...