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...dedicated mentor to scores of young writers at this magazine. She took them under her care and helped infuse them with the joy that comes from well-crafted sentences and judgments. One of them, Nancy Gibbs, pointed out in her eulogy that Martha had two great talents as a teacher: "She always knew more than you did. She never pointed that...
...hybrid--half man, half deity--recast as a clumsy teen. Superman-strong and Bambi-naive, Herc is an ideal foil for wily Meg (a subtle siren, wonderfully voiced by Susan Egan). She plays Barbara Stanwyck to his Eddie Bracken, while a gruff satyr (Danny DeVito) acts as Herc's mentor and parries the anti-Olympus scheming of Hades (James Woods...
Dissatisfied with the education he was supposed to be receiving, Keyes followed his mentor Allan Bloom--later author of The Closing of the American Mind and professor of social thought at the University of Chicago--to Paris on a scholarship as Bloom's research assistant...
Widlanski describes Knowles's lab as a congenial place, with a boss who insisted all the students call him "Jeremy." Many of those graduate students are now tenured professors themselves--a distinction which reflects on their dissertation adviser's ability as a mentor...
...reach out to those families who have never had anyone go to the University of California or go to college," he told a TIME town meeting last week in Sacramento. The University of California is proposing such a program; it wants to spend tens of millions of dollars to mentor students in some of the state's poorest school districts...