Word: guru
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Some women have it all - but maybe they shouldn't. Controversial radio therapist and self-help guru Dr. Laura Schlessinger argues that mothers' careers belong on the back burner while they raise their children themselves. A self-described "recovering feminist," Schlessinger says watching a documentary on childbirth at age 35 summoned the maternal instincts she believes are present in even the most "liberated" of women. She spoke with TIME about her tough-love advice, her talking action figure and her 12th book, In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms. (Read "What Mother Nature Teaches Us About Motherhood...
Merkin, who pocketed more than $470 million in fees from investors, the suit alleges, was not the "investing guru" he claimed to be, but instead a "master marketer" who knew and ignored the many "glaring red-flags" related to Madoff's investments, according to Cuomo...
...intuitive, almost artistic feel for golf; Harrington belongs to a breed of amateur scientists who use an agonizing process of trial and error to master their craft. "Padraig is the hardest worker I've ever coached, and the most curious," says Bob Torrance, Harrington's 77-year-old swing guru. "[Former great Ben] Hogan was similar, both struggled early in their career. Both learned long and hard, and both became great...
...like to have seen the faces of the movie-ratings board members as they sat through the scene in Brüno where, according to the movie-business website the Wrap, the lead character, a gay Austrian fashion guru, "appears to have anal sex with a man on camera." And I can almost guarantee that Sacha Baron Cohen, who plays Brüno in the same-titled movie, would love to have watched them watching...
...Borat and now as a gay Austrian fashion guru, Baron Cohen has fashioned a comedy career from a series of deadpan assaults on the propriety of unsuspecting citizens. He basically makes fun of naive people and exploits the weakness of their decency for our amusement and discomfort. What, then, could be more delicious for Baron Cohen than spying on the members of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) ratings board - the de facto censorship committee of Hollywood movies - as they recoiled from the backdoor action onscreen and then had to consider saying no to one of the most eagerly...