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Despite her aversion to all things Princetonian, Chase heads south to New Jersey for a weekend-long economics conference and—at the behest of her mentor, Princeton Afro-American Studies Department chair Earl Stokes—agrees to linger in town to guest-lecture in his undergraduate class Monday morning. Nikki’s long weekend quickly turns nightmarish after Stokes dies in a mysterious blaze. As she hunts for Stokes’ murderer, Nikki finds that blacks and whites in Princeton are related by blood ties formed through a slew of adulterous trysts...
...later, began to take revenge on the killers: the rest of the DIVAS and their charismatic boss, Bill (David Carradine). Vol. 2 finishes the tale as the Bride tracks down Bill's brother Budd (Michael Madsen) and one-eyed Elle (Daryl Hannah) before a last chat with her old mentor, lover and would-be murderer...
...many ways CityStep is more like a sports team than a public service program. They don’t just mentor; they bond, fraternize and fete—and they have the whole campus watching them do it. “CityStep is an intense service opportunity, but a structure socially also—for the teachers,” says Michael H. Kalin ’05, one of seven executive directors on force. The organization is divided into “teams” of seven each. Each team works with one classroom of fifth- or sixth-graders...
...know he really listened to him,” says former Summers chief of staff Marne Levine. “They had an ability to joke with one another. Michael had concentrated in economics so he really took the opportunity to learn from Larry. There was a mentor-mentee kind of relationship there...
...book asks, could a black man make another black man his property? Jones circles his subject warily rather than charging straight at it: the novel begins with Henry's death, then loops around to follow him from childhood. We meet Henry's former owner, who became his mentor, and his father, a good, dignified man who is horrified at what his son has become. We meet many of Henry's 33 slaves, including Moses, his moody, brooding overseer: "Moses had thought that it was already a strange world that made him a slave to a white...