Word: phil
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...with the problems when my mother, who was going through a divorce, was making time to Candid Camera me. Nevertheless, in the interest of self-exploration and to avoid writing an actual science story for this mental-health issue, I decided to be analyzed by Dr. Phil. Searching for problems to work on, I considered talking to him about not having got a haircut for 11 months in an effort to disguise the fact that I'm going bald. But I figured Dr. Phil might not be the best person to bring that up with...
...called my mom, who is a big Dr. Phil fan, and asked her what's wrong with me. "Do you have to come up with just one issue?" she asked. I was already regretting this phone call. "One of the issues is your avoidance of conflict. You refuse to fight. You walk away. It would be interesting to see where that came from," she said. I suggested that it possibly came from having a therapist mom. Then she said something else that I said I agreed with, but sort of missed since I was typing an e-mail...
...much of a stretch to see all these investigations and authority figures as a kind of shadow 9/11 drama. (Who is stern-talking Oprah protege Dr. Phil, after all, but a more down-home John Ashcroft?) Hollywood's crime stories were neither uniformly authoritarian nor bleeding heart. FX's cop drama The Shield introduced Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis), a crooked, brutal--and extremely effective--L.A. cop, and left it up to us to decide whether his results justified his means. HBO's The Wire used the story of a single Baltimore drug investigation as a parable for the crisis...
Weary of airport hassles and delays--not to mention time-wasting traffic jams--many executives like King are taking the throttle in their hands and learning to fly themselves from appointment to appointment. Student starts are at their highest level since 1993, says Phil Boyer, 61, president of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA). The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reports that the number of new student pilots flying single-engine planes rose 6% this year through Nov. 2, compared with the same period last year, to a total of 58,747. While no one tracks the number of executives...
...every member of Augusta. So far, we haven't heard a peep out of most of them. Where's the pressure on corporate fat cats like Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who recently became a member, as sources told TIME? Where's the heat on such topflight pros as Phil Mickelson, Davis Love III, David Duval? None of them individually have the clout of Woods, but a protest by all of them would bring Augusta to its knees--and would let Tiger stop trying to be the Magic Negro and go back to playing golf...