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...love you, and I know you can do better,” his mentor said, according to a 2001 Fortune Magazine article. “But I’m going to take you out if you can’t get it fixed...
...addition to expressing admiration for her colleagues in the FDO and the proctors with whom she worked, Torrance called Nathans an invaluable mentor and friend to her family, though she said that her and Nathans’ departures were unrelated...
...delighted that Theda has agreed to lead the Graduate School at a moment of great strength and challenge,” Kirby said in a press release. “She is a national leader in multiple fields of study, a devoted mentor of graduate students, and a dedicated citizen of this faculty...
Umberto Eco looks like a genial mentor, white-bearded and approachable, his comfortable rotundity settled deep in the softest armchair of his Milan living room. Yet the 73-year-old academic and author, condemned to international celebrity by his 1980 debut novel The Name of the Rose, is not without thorns. Today's discourse - ranging from his newest work of fiction, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, to politics, religion and neckties - bristles with sharp observations. Avuncular he may seem, but this famous European intellectual has not mellowed with age. Age, memory and nostalgia are, however, the central themes...
...nothing but dubious celebrity interviews and reports on sewer-bond hearings. We also need reminding, at a moment when public confidence in journalism is, according to the polls, at an all-time low, that it can be an honorable craft. Deep Throat be damned; he was, it seems, more mentor than prime informant on the story. It was the hardworking boys--fueled by ambition (yes, that, speaking of low human motives), passion and fast food--who put the puzzle together. Do you think, just possibly, we could use a few more of their ilk right now in Washington...