Word: mentor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LaVonda Michele Williams Cabot HouseHarvard Society of Black Scientists and Engineers,co-founder, vice-president, university liaisonMSA, Cabot House Committee, Cabot HallRepresentative; Cambridge School volunteers,big-sister, PBH, Colprep mentor...
...only did we lose dear relatives in these deaths, but also the unrecoverable histories, manners and knowledge that they carried with them. Not a week later the Harvard community was devastated by the suicide of a student and the loss of a brilliant mentor taken far before her time. I grieved for them also...
They had not. George's mentor, former Director William Casey, was legendary for his utter contempt of Congress. The same attitude was expressed by former senior CIA officer Ray Cline, who complained after George's indictment last fall that "the only thing Clair has ever been accused of is lying to Congress." In the eyes of some agency veterans, Alan Fiers, chief of CIA's Central American Task Force, who admitted his own guilt in lying to Congress, was a "turncoat" for testifying against George; current spy chief Thomas Twetten was deemed a hero for stonewalling...
...person, and the whole world is watching." How is she faring under the bright lights? "I'm just doing my thing, pulling it off." Spectators who expect another bubbly Mary Lou will be disappointed. "She makes me nervous when I watch her compete," says Retton, both a friend and mentor. "Kim doesn't show any kind of emotion." Instead, the 80-lb. Zmeskal wears a glassy stare and becomes intensely quiet, turning all her strengths inward...
...impact. His updated rhetoric provides a paper-thin layer of respectability to a noxious creed that appeals to alienated white youths like Shawn Slater, whom Robb is grooming as a future Klan leader. An ex-skinhead, Slater now heads the Klan's chapter in Aurora, Colo. Like his mentor, Slater has mastered the art of attracting publicity by staging events that draw the wrath of protesters. In Denver last January, he orchestrated a Klan rally on Martin Luther King Day that turned violent when anti-Klan protesters threw bottles, overturned a police car and battled police. The incident allowed Slater...