Word: mentored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much of the craft as a teenager from John Palamarchuk, a 68-year-old former body-shop owner known to law enforcement as "One-Eyed." (His right eye socket, filled with a plastic orb, is barely open.) Wills, who did not own a driver's license, sometimes enlisted his mentor to rent the trucks that hauled his booty. Palamarchuk, who has never served time despite nine arrests, was happy to oblige. Even today, after his star student's fall, Palamarchuk makes no excuses about the milieu he inhabited. "What are you driving?" he asks, single-eyeballing a reporter's rented...
Washington used to be Anita Hill's town too--at least until a combination of gross incompetence, naivete and vindictiveness caused her to flee and plot revenge against a mentor who had callously discarded...
...doorway of the Bjelave orphanage, watching the chaos around him. More than 60 children, abandoned by their parents, fight, scream and run through the empty corridors of the three- story school. Though he is not on the faculty -- most of the instructors have fled -- Imamajovic says he is their mentor. "I teach them to steal and not to share," he says. "I teach them to survive. The city may die, but some of them will live...
Abdel Rahman has been spiritual mentor to members of not one but two rings of suspected terrorists. The first group allegedly bombed the World Trade Center on Feb. 26. The second is accused of planning to bomb the United Nations building, a federal office building and the Holland and Lincoln tunnels; some of its members were arrested in the act of mixing the explosives. Officially, though, the sheik's detention had nothing to do with terrorism. Attorney General Janet Reno determined that there was insufficient evidence linking Abdel Rahman to the bomb plots, and she clung to that stand despite...
Salem was part of the inner circle around Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind, fiery Egyptian cleric who has been spiritual mentor both to the accused World Trade Center bombers and to members of the new ring. In fact Salem served for a time as Abdel Rahman's bodyguard. He is said to have turned informant partly for money (the FBI reportedly has recommended that he be given a $250,000 bonus for his help), but largely because he thought terrorist killings were betraying, not furthering, the cause of Islam and were likely to prompt a worldwide backlash against Muslims...