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...dent in her work ethic,” Delaney-Smith says. “She’s always like, ‘What do I need to do?’ and ‘How do I need to do it?’ What better mentor and role-model do you want as your captain?”This season, the underclassmen-laden roster—the two captains are the only seniors on this year’s squad—will need that leadership to guide it through the Ivy season. And despite the pressure...
...well. Coach Jean Marie Burr is a proven winner, but 2006-2007 is not the year of the Bear.Player to Watch: Catherine SchaperThe 6’3 Schaper helped fill out a thin front line last season, and she’ll see more time and be a mentor to a trio of freshman forwards.COLUMBIAThe Lions roared little and lost often last year, recording just a pair of wins over Yale to finish seventh in the league at 2-12. The bright spot is senior guard Megan Griffith (15.2 ppg), second team All-Ivy in 2006. The downside? Everything else...
...endorsing Murtha in this week's Democratic leadership elections? In one word, loyalty. The San Francisco congresswoman, first elected back in 1987, wasn't expected to become Speaker of the House, and one of the key factors in her rise in Washington has been Murtha, who has been a mentor and ally. Murtha was actually Pelosi's campaign manager in her 2001 race against Hoyer, helping convince more senior lawmakers that Pelosi was ready to be one of the party's top leaders...
...Bill Cosby, 69, actor and funnyman; a lawsuit filed by a former employee of Temple University (where Cosby is a trustee), who alleged that the comedian sexually assaulted her in 2004 in his Cheltenham, Pa., mansion; under confidential terms. The woman, who called Cosby a onetime friend and mentor, said she took three pills he gave her and awoke to find her bra undone and her clothes in disarray. Cosby's lawyers said that after a dinner with the woman, he gave her Benadryl when she complained of stress and sleeping problems...
...more broadly, a neo-Wilsonian mission of spreading democracy. The two primary realists in the Bush court, Colin Powell and Brent Scowcroft, were the most prominent castoffs by the end of the first term. And Condoleezza Rice, for years a sophisticated realist thinker in the mold of her mentor Scowcroft, underwent a post-9/11 conversion to the belief that there was no longer a useful distinction between democracy-crusading idealism and national-security realism...