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...Third International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians in St. Petersburg, Russia, which led to his playing with numerous European orchestras. Yo-Yo Ma ’76 also recognizes Koh’s talent and has taken him under his wing. Ma has acted as Koh’s mentor, assisting him when Koh decided to attend Harvard. Ma has supported Koh in his efforts to seek a joint concentration in both Music and Molecular and Cellular Biology. And now, when Koh is graduating from Harvard, Koh seeks Ma’s advice in deciding about his future...
...Cutmore-Scott. “One of our major aims was to get people who aren’t necessarily in the theater community or exposed to it that much involved,” he says. Wick notes that the strength of the writers made it easier to mentor them during the collaboration process. “I didn’t have to do that much because we have such talented writers,” she says. From tongue-in-cheek farce to more serious fare, “Sketches!!” promises to provide a unique blend...
...Stillman, a recent Yale graduate who pursues his dream of becoming a professional poker player. But his easy success in online poker tournaments does not translate to the professional poker circuit until he unexpectedly meets Tommy Vinson (Burt Reynolds), a retired poker star. Vinson becomes Stillman’s mentor, receiving half of his mentee’s winnings in exchange for guidance. They are successful until the arrival of Michelle (Shannon Elizabeth), a Las Vegas call girl who causes a rift between the two. The tension between Stillman and Vinson mounts as both enter the World Series of Poker...
...Kagan, who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, now holds the Charles Hamilton Houston professorship, named for the legendary civil rights attorney—and mentor to Marshall—who is known as “the man who killed Jim Crow,” according to Manegold...
...Harvard. Ganeshananthan admits in her acknowledgments that Kinkaid’s “particular brand of meticulous attention continues to be the standard for which I strive,” and there are multiple moments when Ganeshananthan soars to the same heights of literary joy as her mentor. When Yalini describes her similarity to her Aunt Uma, Ganeshananthan’s prose takes off: “Uma was not there, not there to the point that when the temple lamp was passed she dipped her fingers into the fire instead of hovering at its edge...