Word: mentored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of mentor who's there all the time," says Mignon R. Moore, a fifth-year graduate student at Chicago. "But if you ask him to read something or consider some ideas you have, he'll get back to you. He's very encouraging and motivating...
...years in that role, Lighthizer negotiated trade agreements that benefited the U.S. steel industry. Afterward, he joined the prestigious law firm of Skadden Arps as a nearly $1 million-a-year trade attorney and lobbyist representing, yes, steel companies among others. In that role he has returned his mentor's generosity: as treasurer of Dole for President, he has helped raise $37 million, the maximum allowed under the law. Lawyers at Skadden Arps have provided more than $35,000 for Dole's presidential bid; steel companies are close behind...
...that at Minnesota were the measure of a happy few, generally students who had to be in the Twin Cities, who could not afford top schools or who found teachers and peers--as in the flagship units of the Liberal Arts, Political Science, Psychology and Economics Departments--who could mentor their work without flaw...
After finishing law school, Bennett found another mentor in Charles Frankel, a Columbia philosophy professor who became president of the National Humanities Center in North Carolina and hired Bennett as his executive director. One spring morning in 1979, Bennett arrived for an overnight visit with Frankel and his wife at their mansion in Bedford Hills, New York, but he hadn't even unpacked his bags before he was called away on urgent business. That night, the Frankels were murdered by burglars, who were caught and found to have been high on amphetamines...
...Ives. A graduate of Harvard who began making corporate and documentary films in Texas, Ives was the co-producer of Burns' 1989 film The Congress, worked on The Civil War, and produced and directed a film on Charles Lindbergh for PBS before tackling The West. He has inherited his mentor's passion and volubility on the subject of American history. Ives likes to call the West the "great four-way stop sign of American history, where everyone was changed by the encounters they had." He adds, "I don't think it's possible to understand this country without exploring...