Guru

I have suffered with "the Monster" for more than 20 years. That's what I call my excruciating headaches. It took five years to get a decent diagnosis. I'd inject [migraine treatment] Imitrex, and the pain would leave eventually. I'd rather not take Imitrex unless there is no other choice. One day, I'd had seven attacks. I called my doctor and said unless I could get help, today would be my last. I sent the same message to the Headache Clinic in Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia.

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An irritated Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, the self-described "rich man's guru" who was expelled from the United States last year, returned to his homeland today after being denied permanent residence in half a dozen other countries. Rajneesh arrived from Portugal on a private plane and was questioned by Indian customs officials for almost two hours before he was granted an entry permit. The guru was taken out of his plane in a wheelchair and said he had a back problem.

The vanity license plate is hard to miss as the black BMW sport-utility vehicle pulls into a parking spot outside a middle school in San Marino. QB CLUB. From behind the wheel steps a man dressed in shorts, a T-shirt and ball cap, all black. From the passenger side emerges a teenage boy, tall and slender, wearing a white T-shirt, black shorts, cleats — and clutching a football. The two walk determinedly past an expansive grass field and head toward the playground. The young quarterback drops the ball, and then grips the post of a chin-up bar and stretches his right arm. As the man barks instruction about the fundamentals of throwing a pass, it is clear they are there for more than a simple game of catch.

A gaudy, raucous romp, "The Guru" tracks the misadventures of an Indian actor who travels to an America where Bollywood meets Hollywood by way of the Macarena. Directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer and written by Tracey Jackson, the silliness begins percolating in Delhi, India, with a dance instructor named Ramu (Jimi Mistry) corralling a roomful of matrons swathed in saris the color of saffron and green apple.

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, the Indian guru ousted from the United States four months ago, was arrested today and ordered out of Greece after 3 1/2 weeks of preaching free love, inveighing against the Greek Orthodox Church and calling the nation's rulers "idiots." Followers of the guru said more than 20 Greek police smashed windows to break into the luxurious clifftop villa while the guru was taking an afternoon nap. "They gave no reason for the arrest.

Never mind that she's more grandmother than grande dame: Sue Johanson can talk dirty with the best of them. During her weekly television show --"Talk Sex with Sue Johanson," now completing its second season on the Oxygen network -- the registered nurse and "70-ish" mother of three doles out bedroom tips with such poker-faced candor she might as well be serving up cooking counsel. Attribute her clinical frankness to three decades as a sex guru: In 1970 Johanson founded a birth control clinic at a high school in her native Toronto, and in 1984 she launched a popular Canadian radio show that was soon picked up for cable TV. Nowadays Johanson, recently appointed to the prestigious Order of Canada, talks sex on television, in bookstores and at colleges across the country.

The house sits hidden in an orange grove, well back from a narrow country lane that winds up through the citrus country of the Ojai Valley. The structure is modest, simple and architecturally characteristic of ranches hereabouts. It is wood and stone, plain, unpretentious.

For most people, January is a season of reflection and resolution. For others, it is a time of frantic attempts to rehabilitate one's image before the next election. It's panic time, in other words, at the White House. Last week, Clinton Administration officials confirmed what Rush Limbaugh had already told his listeners: that motivational guru Anthony Robbins had been invited by President Clinton to Camp David on Dec. 30 for a consultation. You know who Tony Robbins is.

Gang Starr's name describes the poles of contemporary rap--the first word relating to the hard-core gangstas, the second to the lighter-weight pop stars. But the Brooklyn-based duo doesn't really fit into either category, and thus has had a hard time finding a visible place on the charts. "It's frustrating at times to see things do well with meaningless lyrics or gangsta hard-core sensationalism," said Keith Elan, who raps under the name Guru.

The American Redoubt: It lies in the rural high country of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, eastern Washington and Oregon. For a growing number of people, it's the designated point of retreat when the American economy hits the fan. When banks fail, the government declares martial law, the power grid goes down. When warming oceans flood the coasts and a resurgent Russia takes out targets on the Eastern Seaboard. Though white separatists for years have called for a racial homeland in the inland Pacific Northwest, an even bigger movement of survivalists, Christian fundamentalists and political doomsayers is fueling the idea of a defensible retreat in the high country west of the Rockies.

The Beverly Hills-area home of self-help guru James Arthur Ray has sold for $3.015 million. The "Harmonic Wealth" author was sentenced last month in Arizona to two years in prison for the deaths of three clients overcome by heat during a sweat lodge ceremony. He was convicted of negligent homicide in the 2009 incident. Ray had purchased the more than 7,000-square-foot house earlier that year for $4 million. Bank approved for a short sale, according to the listing, the contemporary Mediterranean features a step-down living room, a gym, an office, three fireplaces, six bedrooms and five bathrooms.

He first appears in the movie as he first appeared with the Dodgers, a wallflower pulled reluctantly into the spotlight, a nerd suddenly tapped on the shoulder by the cool kids. The character that is supposed to be Paul DePodesta is a rumpled and bespectacled figure leaning against a wall whispering trade vetoes to a Cleveland Indians colleague. The character that is supposed to be Billy Beane openly wonders who he is, and why everyone thinks he's so smart, and so begins a journey that Dodgers fans will instantly and painfully recognize.

When author Robert Greene wrote his bestselling book "The 48 Laws of Power," his win-at-all-costs message turned him into a cult hero with the hip-hop set, Hollywood elite and prison inmates alike. Crush your enemy totally, he wrote in Law 15. Play a sucker to catch a sucker, he said in another. Get others to do the work for you, but always take the credit. Greene's warrior-like take on the quest for power, written more than a decade ago, would eventually attract another devotee: Dov Charney, the provocative and sometimes impish chief executive of Los Angeles clothing company American Apparel Inc. The 52-year-old Greene — a former screenwriter who speaks five languages and worked 80 jobs before writing "The 48 Laws" — has become Charney's guru, a trusted confidant to the 42-year-old entrepreneur and, insiders say, a voice of reason on American Apparel's board of directors.

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A jury in Arizona convicted a bestselling author and self-help guru Wednesday in the deaths of three clients during a sweat lodge ceremony in 2009 that was intended to help participants overcome adversity to reach their full potential. After hearing four months of testimony, the eight-man, four-woman jury deliberated for fewer than 12 hours before finding James Arthur Ray guilty of three counts of negligent homicide. The panel acquitted Ray of the more serious charges of manslaughter.

Nissan Motor Co.is bringing back the storied Datsun brand, but American drivers are unlikely to see any new vehicles adorned with the name whose popularity in Southern California served as a springboard to international prominence. Nissan is positioning Datsun as a lower-cost brand in emerging markets. The new line will go on sale in India, Indonesia and Russia in 2014. The Datsun brand dates from 1931 as the nameplate of Japan's DAT Motorcar Co., which was purchased by Nissan in 1933.

Just weeks before the deadline for state ballot initiatives, the effort to put a marijuana legalization measure before voters in the general election is in disarray as the federal government cracks down on medical cannabis and activists are divided on their goals. After Proposition 19 received 46% of the vote in 2010, proponents took heart at the near-miss. They held meetings in Berkeley and Los Angeles and vowed to put a well-funded measure to fully legalize marijuana on the 2012 ballot, when the presidential election would presumably draw more young voters.

Lawyers this week painted contrasting portraits of a self-help guru who saw three clients die in a sweat lodge: reckless profiteer or victim of circumstance. Defense attorney Luis Li argued that the deaths during a so-called Spiritual Warrior retreat were a senseless tragedy, and that James Arthur Ray was not criminally liable for them. Li noted that people who paid nearly $10,000 to attend the weeklong workshop in October 2009 signed a waiver warning that death was among the risks.

A popular yoga guru retreated to his plush ashram Sunday claiming the Indian government was out to kill him after police forcibly removed the televangelist from a "fast-unto-death" hunger strike against corruption and scattered tens of thousands of his followers. The showdown in New Delhi had been building for days, after the saffron-robed, barefoot guru Ram Krishna Ramdev, known as Baba Ramdev, went ahead with his threat to lead a mass hunger strike in the capital. Police in protective gear moved in early Sunday, using truncheons and tear gas against his followers and sparking panic in and around the massive tent they'd put up at the Ramlila Ground.