Word: mentored
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Russell Sage is among the most aggressive and innovative recruiters of female applicants. Among its techniques: assigning every arriving freshman an upper-class "big sister," along with a faculty mentor and a student adviser, and weaving "old-girl networks" to create the same kinds of career opportunities for its graduates that "old boys" have traditionally held out to young men. Russell Sage also puts its seniors in touch with alumnae executives who provide career advice and arrange job contacts...
Restic was especially pleased with the way hisdefense responded to the challenging Wishbone. "Inthe end," Harvard's long-time mentor intoned, "ourdefense did the job when...
...demonstrated a willingness to mobilize overstatement to back up tentative thoughts that defy the prevailing wisdom. "Departing from conventional views of the time is the only way to evidence intellectual interest," says Aaron Director, a longtime University of Chicago free-market economist and an early Bork mentor. "He's always believed in advancing ideas forcefully and having them tested and criticized...
Dallas Real Estate Man Anthony Gange is trying to coax the corrections department into buying an unfinished 108-room mansion owned by followers of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, onetime spiritual mentor of the Beatles. Asking price: $2.9 million. Houston Salvage Operator George Walsh is hawking one of Britain's Falkland Islands barges, currently in the South Atlantic, for $6 million. The U.S. Government has offered to stash miscreants on offshore oil- drilling platforms...
...case rests principally on an irresistible plot. Rusty Sabich, 39, is the chief deputy prosecutor of Kindle County, somewhere in the Middle West. Raymond Horgan, his boss and mentor for the past twelve years, faces a re- election battle undermined by a stroke of bad news. A little less than three weeks before the voting, Carolyn Polhemus, a member of Horgan's staff and Rusty's colleague, has been found murdered in gruesome, suggestive circumstances: nude, bound, apparently raped. Horgan's political opponents create a furor, and the local papers and TV stations chime in: if brutal crime can reach...