Word: fielding
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...estimated 10,000 people from every imaginable professional background now call themselves coaches--twice the number there were in 1998. Some 4,000 would-be coaches are enrolled in a telephone-based training program called Coach U, which takes about two years and $4,300 to complete. And the field is benefiting from the Oprah effect. When her talk show last spring featured coach Cheryl Richardson (author of the best seller Take Time for Your Life), who conducted "lifestyle makeovers" on the air, the Coach U phones lighted...
What would Gatsby's event have been? Track and field, probably. Something where one could peer down a distance at a flickering goal...
...field seems to be prospering precisely because it is not therapy. "We're not interested in looking at the past or knowing why you're facing a certain obstacle," says Marcia Reynolds, president of the International Coach Federation, a group that accredits coaches. "We're here to help you get over it and move on." Indeed, fed up with managed care and the constraints of holding sessions at the office, some therapists are throwing out their couches to become coaches. Last month 75 counselors paid $145 apiece to gather in a Columbus, Ohio, hotel to hear coach Ben Dean...
...counter, she works on eerie drawings. Pretty and slim, she is so shy, so inexpert in marketing herself, that people don't notice her--or, if they do see her, think of Olive Oyl. Ray, though, has a more discerning eye than most. A rich businessman on a field trip for erotic adventure, he stops at her counter to buy a pair of gloves, and--a nice touch--sends them to her. Thus begins a courtship defined by emotional compromise, misunderstood signals and the sort of betrayals that dent relationships but do not, in the real world, end them. Because...
...stories she had written at age seven. "When Kailey read them," White relates, "she decided that at that age, I was like her, but even more shy." Later White realized she may have had another motive: she had applied for a sabbatical to do some writing in her field and perhaps, she thinks, had retrieved "the creative-writing part of myself...