Word: self-help
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Three-fourths of the proceeds from the dance will be donated to the Hildebrand Family Self-Help Center, while the rest will be used for future PfoHo events...
...very, very busy. Three decades after Helen Gurley Brown's classic Sex and the Single Girl offered women the heady advice that men are "cheaper emotionally and a lot more fun by the dozen," all that solo flying seems to be less than thrilling. That must be why self-help books on dating have at last evolved into The Rules: Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right (Warner Books...
...nothing else, Rules Girls have a spirit of adventure. "Sherrie and Ellen assure me that it works," says Randi, a California Rules Girl. "I'll try something else if it doesn't." An attitude like that is music to the ears of self-help authors everywhere...
Fiercely resistant to authority, Williams spent nearly seven years in solitary confinement and turned to exotic self-help works, including a text on ancient Egyptian philosophy. "I slowly realized I was living a lie," he says. "The respect I cared so much about was based on intimidation, not self-respect. I had been involved in madness." Interviewed in 1993 by author Barbara Cottman Becnel for a history of the Crips and Bloods, Williams asked a favor in return. Becnel carried a videotaped speech by Williams condemning violence to a 1993 gang "summit" in Los Angeles. The audience responded with...
...proposed by Indiana Senator Dan Coats to promote volunteerism reflect, in their own ways, a frustration with government and a wariness of its reach. Which is why many scholars have expressed concern that Americans have been turning inward during the past 25 years. Putnam and others argue that such self-help groups as 12-step organizations and New Age religions have usurped and replaced outward-looking civic groups. In his book Trust, Francis Fukuyama says that the "rights revolution" of the 1970s and '80s undermined the country's sense of community. I replaced we as the pronoun of choice...