Word: mentored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interview, Althea P. Scott '98--a two-year mentor in the summer program and a friend of Eric's--recalled his ability to reach out to the six-and seven- year-olds who participate in the summer program...
...series of suicides that occurred at Harvard in the last few years, Hailei's case makes us ponder the changes in the faculty-student relationship in an academic environment and the potential danger associated with such changes. The traditional "trust-based" mentor-pupil relationship is being challenged by ongoing changes in our society. The power imbalance inherent in the teacher-student relationship is further aggravated by the advent of professionalization and the proliferation of commercialization. A professor is in control of such vast resources that his/her action can have a significant impact on a student's career and future prospects...
...surely noticed, the man who would succeed him has been busy shuttling around the country, raising money for his colleagues and storing away political IOUs for the moment the post-Newt era arrives. Gingrich's loyalists are feigning indifference in public while fuming in private. "Paxon betrayed his own mentor," snipes one. "Is that the kind of leader we want...
Coppola's screenplay changes little of the book's simplistic plot. Matt Damon, following in the footsteps of Matthew McConaughey, is Rudy Baylor, a recent law-school grad with a soft spot for people in need. With the help of his diminutive mentor (Danny DeVito), Rudy evolves into an ethics-driven Superman--a lawyer with a heart, out to save the world from evil. First, there is his bold attack on a gargantuan insurance company that has a method of denying claims until policyholders give up. Rudy is astounded by the corruption of such a company that refuses...
...activist circles of Harvard-Radcliffe have called for individual PBHA programs to compel volunteers to think harder about the deeper social problems at work in the communities they serve. They have decried what they see as a lack of deeper consideration in some programs, where volunteers teach, tutor, mentor and otherwise serve without concern for healing the wounds they bandage...