Word: mentored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ongoing projects that involve City Year participants include programs in school that educate students on AIDS, domestic violence, and conflict resolution, tutor and mentor students and renovate dilapidated parks and buildings...
...same time that gay activists have become more sophisticated and accommodating, their opponents on the Christian right have become more militant and more powerful within the Republican Party. Gary Bauer, head of the Family Research Council, and his mentor James Dobson, the Christian broadcaster who heads Focus on the Family, with its 2.3 million-name mailing list, have made opposition to gay rights a defining issue. Republicans trying to bridge the gap complain that while the rhetoric of the Christian right makes compromise difficult, so does some of the language of gay activism. "They got to get off the stuff...
...great friend and mentor to me in the area of health care access," Menino added...
...study at Columbia University's Teachers College looked at the lives of 100 prominent Americans, ages 40 to 55, and found that those who had come from disadvantaged backgrounds were especially likely to cite the influence of a mentor as a key to their success. Sometimes a caring teacher served "as a parent substitute," says Charles Harrington, who co-directed the study. Sometimes the teacher provided an affirming "turnaround moment," for example, by standing up for a child and saying, "Henry wouldn't lie." That moment of validation, he notes, "transforms Henry...
...evidence seems conclusive. After her mentor in the hospital's neurology department, Dr. Mary Andriola, sent the research abstract to medical journals without listing Torres' age, the study seemed to get the attention it deserved. Two weeks ago, Torres picked up the phone in her Holworthy suite only to discover that one of the journals was interested, so interested in fact that they wanted to include it in an upcoming edition. The research results and conclusions will be presented at a national neurological meeting and will be published in either the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England...