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...elder Lee remains in his son's Cabinet with the newly invented post of Minister Mentor. The grand old man himself recognizes that Singapore has to change, repeatedly stressing the need for a more open, risk-friendly environment to encourage entrepreneurship. "We need a cultural change and it can't be bureaucratized," he told TIME last year, or else "we'll come a cropper." Meanwhile, ex-PM Goh will take over Lee's former title (and No. 2 position in protocol) of Senior Minister. Goh's continued presence may reassure some Singaporeans that the changes he initiated...
...advertising-industry conference in Detroit in 2001, she was speaking to a crowd of starstruck ad executives when somewhere in the crowd, a voice piped up with a fawning question. "Someone asked her, 'You dispense all this advice. Who taught you all these things? Who's your mentor?'" recalls Samir Husni, a magazine consultant who also spoke at the meeting. "She said, 'Me. Me. I did it all by myself...
DIED. JOE GOLD, 82, California bodybuilder and founder of Gold's Gym; in Los Angeles. Gold, center, was an early popularizer of bodybuilding in the U.S. and mentor to a broke Austrian bodybuilder named Arnold Schwarzenegger, whom he allowed to work out for free and nicknamed "Balloon Belly." His Venice Beach gym was the setting for the documentary Pumping Iron...
...both the strength and vulnerability of the media empire she had built. At an advertising-industry conference in Detroit in 2001, the lifestyle guru was fielding questions from a star-struck audience. "Someone asked her, 'You dispense all this advice?who taught you all these things? Who's your mentor?'" recalls Samir Husni, a magazine consultant who also spoke at the conference. "She said, 'Me. Me. I did it all by myself...
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays conclude with mentor meetings, in which mentors discuss how the day’s events relate to the theme of “students as citizens...