Word: mentored
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...Purachai's record as an anticorruption fighter and his high-profile "social-order campaign"?which instituted a 2 a.m. curfew and random drug tests at Bangkok's notorious nightclubs?won widespread public support. And when it appeared Thaksin was trying to engineer Purachai's resignation, Thaksin's own political mentor, Chanlong Srimuang, publicly backed the Justice Minister. By Friday, Thaksin backed down, niftily taking credit for keeping Purachai in the government?"He definitely won't quit, I insist"?while also heading off potential divisions in his party. There has, however, been no more talk of succession...
...Pacino played his patented wild man mentor, seen previously in films like Scent of a Woman, this time in the incarnation of CIA recruiter Walter Burke...
...divorce and homosexuality before helping to found the Social Democratic Party in 1981; in Oxfordshire, England. A distinguished journalist and acclaimed biographer, Roy Jenkins penned Gladstone (1995) and Churchill (2001). In 1987 Jenkins was made a life peer and elected Chancellor of Oxford University. He served as a mentor to Prime Minister Tony Blair, who described him last week as "one of the most remarkable people to ever grace British politics...
...screen showed snatches of Lee as a young, muscular diver, and later as a coach and mentor to greats like Greg Louganis...
Hankins, an associate at the Boston law firm Ropes & Gray, was active among black Harvard alumni and worked to mentor and recruit black lawyers both within his firm and in the greater Boston area...