Word: mentor
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...children's studies program aims to incorporate more courses on children into the Harvard curriculum as well as create a project of "research, ... mentor fellowships for students, and community projects to create attention and priority for children at the University." A Core course, Social Analysis 56: "Children and Their Social Worlds," will be taught in the spring, and will be the first class taught under the auspices of "children's studies." We encourage the expansion of the program and hope that more classes like Social Analysis 56 will be offered in the future...
Moakley, who has devoted his career to public service, is cut from the same mold as his old friend and mentor, Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill, the former House Speaker. At age 15 Moakley volunteered for the Navy and fought the Japanese in the South Pacific. The journeyman politician hasn't fallen behind: in September, he introduced the Community On-Line Act, which would provide grants to community buildings that hook up to the Internet...
BORN: July 22, 1954, Cleveland EDUCATION: U of Michigan, B.A., 1976; Cleveland State, J.D., 1979 FAMILY: Wife, Susan; four children RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Candidate for Lake County prosecutor, 1984; Lake County prosecutor, 1988-94; U.S. House, 1994- ADDRESS: 7200 Center Street, No. 102, Mentor, Ohio...
...Carcaterra, nicknamed Shakes (Jason Patric), is an aspiring newspaperman. Michael intends not only to lose the case against his old pals but also to use it to wreak vengeance on Nokes' former accomplices, all of whom have gone on to respectable lives. Shakes' job is to persuade their priestly mentor to supply an alibi for the murderers by lying on the witness stand. This offers amusingly gainful employment for Dustin Hoffman as a bumbling defense lawyer. It is all legally preposterous. But Levinson is a slick craftsman, his actors are insinuatingly real, and cinematographer Michael Ballhaus casts a disarmingly believable...
...growing its expensive institutional structure, but rather by phasing much of it out, and by expanding the offerings that students find useful. Programs which target the interests of students by providing experiences distinct from those offered at Harvard should receive the bulk of Radcliffe's funding. The mentor program, the Lyman Common Room and the externship program are prominent examples...