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EXPECTING. Mary Cunningham, 33, America's best-known businesswoman since her meteoric, media-monitored career at Bendix Corp. in 1979-80 and her 1984 book Powerplay, which blamed the press for leering speculation about favors from the boss; and William Agee, 47, her mentor as chairman of Bendix from 1977 to 1983 and her husband of three years: their first child (he has three children by a previous marriage); in September. The couple now run their own venture-capital and consulting firm, Semper Enterprises, on Cape Cod, Mass...
...obscure, two-term Michigan Congressman and former Harvard Divinity School student. After the 1980 election, Stockman was so little known in the Reagan camp that he was not invited to the President-elect's major planning sessions in Los Angeles. But Congressman Jack Kemp of New York, then a mentor of Stockman's, brought along a memo his protégé had written called "Avoiding a G.O.P. Economic Dunkirk" and recommended him as Budget Director...
...potential weakness. "A dickschädel, " his coach Günther Bosch calls him, meaning he is, not to put too fine a point on it, pigheaded. That imparts to his game its never-say-die spirit, but may also interfere with improving it physically and tactically. Ion Tiriac, his other mentor, insists Becker is too slow afoot but has trouble imposing on him a corrective training regimen. "He's very stubborn. You have to convince him of everything." In fact, it took Tiriac and Bosch three months just to change the mechanics of Becker's serve so he could follow...
Scott V. Edwards, a student of Mayr’s and his successor to the Agassiz professorship, remembered his first encounter with his mentor. It was prior to his own overseas research, when Mayr told him to “write, write, write...
...acrimonious aftermath. The Kurds want to resolve such contentious issues as Kirkuk while their power is at its peak; the Shiites insist it should be done on the basis of a consensus achieved in the new Assembly. And the electorate that put the Shiites in power - and their mentor, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani - are unlikely to accept the legitimacy of any such far-reaching agreements achieved on this basis. Sistani himself never accepted the TAL, and urged that it be changed by an elected Iraqi body, not simply because its authors had been a U.S. occupation authority but because...