Word: mentored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Russell likes it pure, just as it is," says his friend and mentor Quincy Jones. "He wants it raw." Says Simmons: "I don't think every black kid can look at Bill Cosby and hope that's what they're going to be one day. It's not that I don't think Bill Cosby is a great role model. I just don't think he's the only one or that assimilation is the only way we can make...
There was Kevin, our instructor and mentor, an old 82nd Airborne vet who (as it said on the license he passed around) had made 2054 jumps in the six years he had been a member of the United States Parachuting Association...
...vowed to appeal. But whatever the outcome, John Gotti is now an unmade man. Many lower-rung mobsters did not like his high-profile strutting for the media; they were especially outraged that it was his right-hand man, Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano, who delivered up his old mentor, as well as underboss Frank Locascio. "The safest place for John Gotti is in jail," observes Michael Cherkasky, head of investigations for the Manhattan district attorney. Gotti may hope to run the Gambino operation from prison, as Colombo boss Carmine Persico, serving 100 years, is trying to do with his family...
Leno cites all kinds of comedic models -- Alan King, Robert Klein, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor -- but his mentor in the pursuit of popularity was not a comedian but a President. "L.B.J. claimed that every handshake was worth 250 votes," Leno says, in his familiar high-pitched, nasal voice, "because each person then goes and tells someone else you're a good guy and then they go and tell more people...
...police custody turned him into the country's most celebrated black martyr. At 12 Mcerwa joined the 1976 Soweto uprising, the landmark outbreak of racial violence in which more than 100 blacks were killed. As he ran home after being teargassed, an older student who had been his political mentor was gunned down by the police...