Word: mentor
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...perhaps that's what this note has turned out to be. A call to arms, a decision for action. If you are the one who makes a seemingly insignificant investment of energy in tutoring a child, you have shaped that person forever. You will always be "my mentor" to someone. If you are the one who calls up a lonely person and asks them to go out dancing or to dinner or to a meal, you've made a difference: maybe you'll give them a story to tell, maybe you'll provide them with some insight they never...
Dreben served as an advisor and mentor to a generation of Harvard scholars, including Lewis and Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic Warren D. Goldfarb, the department chair of the philosophy department, with whom he co-wrote a book...
...tremendously supportive of his students, a mentor in the strongest and best sense," Lewis said...
Here is a standard time-travel movie, tarted up with a lot of virtual-reality twaddle. Shuttling back and forth between the present and a distinctly low-rent version of Los Angeles in 1937, a techno-nerd (Craig Bierko) must consider the possibility that he murdered his mentor-boss (Armin Mueller-Stahl) and doesn't remember doing so. While he creates an agreeably menacing atmosphere, Rusnak never makes us care particularly about anyone. One finds oneself praying for a wowing special-effects sequence. Or anything else that would jolt this movie out of its inconsequence...
...dean of the college at Princeton, Rudenstineserved under his mentor William Bowen, who wasthen president. According to Rudenstine, Bowentaught him the methods of "collaborativeadministration...