Word: mentored
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...partner and mentor, Sam Hicks, was shot dead while on duty. Reichert was not there when it happened. Three days later the suspect was picked up, and it was Reichert's job to ride with the man to the station in the back of a police car. Hicks's murder made him a more determined detective. Says Reichert: "You just don't want to give up until you make it right...
...example, to substitute peach fuzzy Ben Affleck for the more grizzled Harrison Ford as the novelist's surrogate, Jack Ryan. He's such a kid; why would the President and his cabinet pay attention to him? Good to have Morgan Freeman as an amusingly bemused CIA chief and mentor to Ryan, intrigued by the latter's complicated, even humane, analysis of the intelligence data but never quite certain it should override the simpler Us vs. Them scenario the President's men prefer. Good. perhaps, to have Neo-Nazis as the bad guys; they have no offendable constituency...
...Indian film goddess Madhuri Dixit. Even Nicole Kidman is a fan. And Beri, 30, has been named chief designer for the ready-to-wear division of Paris-based Jean-Louis Scherrer, making her the first Indian designer to gain such a position in France. An auspicious sign: Beri's mentor is renowned fashion mogul Mounir Moufarrige, who supercharged the career of designer Stella McCartney...
...Tougaloo board member, pulled Jackson aside to set him straight: Ebbers had given Tougaloo more than $1 million along with new information technology. Ebbers had also helped Walker purchase a country club and computers to be used by disadvantaged black youth. "Bernie Ebbers," Walker told Jackson, "is my mentor...
...Manson murders, the O.J. Simpson trial--then fashioning their stories into books and TV movies that he directs. He got Jack Ruby's deathbed interview. He co-wrote Simpson's self-serving jailhouse book, I Want to Tell You. For many of those years, Mailer has been Schiller's mentor, older brother and ticket to ride. But lately the balance of power may have shifted a bit. Schiller co-wrote a best seller about the Simpson trial, American Tragedy, with former TIME correspondent James Willwerth. Widely considered the best of the Simpson books, it won Schiller some of the respect...