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...years as a draper's apprentice, he was finally able to find some schooling and, in 1885, gain entrance into London University. It was here that many of Wells's strongest ideas were formulated. T.H. Huxley, one of his teachers in the first year, but by no means his mentor (Wells recounts saying only two words to the man, "Hello, Professor."), was to be a guiding inspiration for the rest of his life. What promised to be a stellar academic career faded quickly the following year when Wells began to find radical politics more interesting than intellectual pursuits...
...film State of Siege, the urban guerrillas were almost all young people, but their theoretical mentor was a Brazilian in his late fifties named Carlos Marighela, the man who formulated a plan for urban guerrilla warfare that is adhered to by groups as disparate as the Tupamaros in Uruguay and the People's Revolutionary Army in Argentina...
Dartmouth's "Green Chapel," the Alumni Gym, is no stranger to mediocre tournaments and futile joustings in recent years. First-year mentor Tom O'Connor rallied the Big Green in a losing streak last February that even national sportswriters could not ignore...
Sanders and his Celtics teammates wooed Boston fans to the Garden for years with a run-and-shoot style of basketball, but the first-year mentor says a weak bench and "prohibitive lack of rebounding height" may force him to a more disciplined strategy...
...Crimson mentor Bill Cleary went with sophomore Jim Murray in goal in Wednesday's opening 3-2 loss to the University of New Hampshire and Murray should see action Sunday as Harvard seeks to even its record...