Word: mentor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's the main line. A whole lot of other interesting stuff feeds smoothly into it: the fight against cancer by Jack's shrewd old mentor (James Earl Jones); an FBI secretary seduced by the oiliest drug runner; the field operatives led by Willem Dafoe who do spectacular damage to the cartel's operations; amusing glimpses of the life-style of its rich and infamous boss. What's truly appealing about the film is that it plays fair with all this material and the audience. Unlike the typical action movie, which is always trampling over narrative logic in order...
...favorite pastime on Wall Street is watching megamergers come together -- and then, sometimes, picking them apart. In this one, the prime mover was Daniel R. Tisch, second son of Larry Tisch and general partner of the risk and arbitrage investment firm Mentor Partners. Says Danny, who encouraged Tisch to buy CBS stock in 1985: "My father has four very smart sons -- or three very smart sons and myself -- and my basic business is trading in securities and investing in securities and takeovers and in mergers and acquisitions. So I do have a fairly good idea of any of the issues...
...that having achieved that state of grace, there's no compelling reason for Mitch Robbins (Billy Crystal, who co-wrote the script with Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel) and Phil Berquist (Daniel Stern) to head West again. Especially since Jack Palance's Curly, their comically tough mentor, was killed off three years ago. The film resorts to a faux ghost routine and a twin-brother conceit to get Palance up and snarling again. Instead of the Bruno Kirby sidekick, we have a whiney Jon Lovitz playing a ne'er-do-well brother, so at least somebody can be seen...
...addition to finishing all their concentration requirements for an undergraduate degree, Brunner and other students in UTEP, took two classes at the Graduate School of Education. They also spent 60 hours working with a mentor teacher at an area high school...
...Beginning teachers are filled to the brim withexpectations and hopes. Sometimes they haveconflicts with their mentor teachers because theysee things differently," Traver says. "When thathappens, my job is to coach them, to help them getback on track...