Word: self-help
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...Does anyone want to get into the ring, intellectually speaking, with Laila Ali, daughter of Muhammed Ali? In June, her self-help book, "Reach! Finding Strength, Spirit, and Personal Power," written with coauthor David Ritz, will be published by Hyperion. Laila now boasts an undefeated 10-0 boxing record. Personally, Galley Girl prefers shopping to allowing others to punch her in the face, but hey - whatever turns...
Metheny himself was so comically earnest and his yuppie audience so vigorously responsive that at times the concert resembled a self-help meeting with the Group providing the soundtrack, whose latest title, Speaking of Now, sounds like a self-help book. The show was about as challenging and exciting as well...
...last thing I want to suggest is that having high self-esteem will ensure good luck; there are plenty of self-help books devoted to that nonsense. I do, however, believe that many of us suffer from all too fragile egos and a tendency at self-flagellation...
...first degree. Subtlety is banished not only in humor, but also in the ultimate climax of the plot, in which we see Christina realize—only after copious amounts of melodramatic sobbing, of course—that when it comes to matters of the heart, her self-help bibles are right: “thou shalt not be afraid...
...Lloyd's of London, doesn't begin to cover settlements the size of Boston's. Commercial insurers have recently started to balk at paying claims if they can prove church officials knew about the abuse and failed to stop it. Most dioceses also insure themselves through a Catholic self-help pool to which they contribute healthy annual premiums. Sometimes nicknamed "the Bishop's Program," this extra insurance often provides the cash payments that church authorities use to conceal their priests' wrongdoings...