Word: mentored
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...work for an L.D.P. heavyweight, Takeo Fukuda. Koizumi answered the phone, ran errands and dusted Fukuda's shoes. He finally took his father's place in 1972, but the years with Fukuda were well spent. For an L.D.P. baron, Fukuda was famously incorruptible, and Koizumi watched his mentor lose power to factions of the party that had perfected pork-barrel politics. Koizumi today rants about the waste in government spending largely because he watched his enemies in the biggest L.D.P. faction shove fat contracts to construction bosses who delivered votes and campaign war chests in return...
Torres, Anthony's wife, has Cristian Antonio in tow, at five months the newest addition to the family. Anthony takes him in his arms and starts dancing. "I'm glad Marc was finally able to balance his career with a family," says mentor and longtime friend Ruben Blades. "At the end of the day, it is the most important thing...
...Director George Tenet was having a leisurely breakfast with his mentor, former Senator David Boren, at the St. Regis Hotel, when he got the news. Their omelettes had just arrived when Tenet's security detail descended with a cell phone. "Give me the quick summary," Tenet said calmly into the phone. He listened a few moments, and then told Boren: "The World Trade Center has been hit. We're pretty sure it wasn't an accident. It looks like a terrorist act." He then got back to the phone, named a dozen people he wanted summoned to the CIA situation...
...Heidi van Pelt. TV’s Dark Angel Jessica Alba, 20, will be trading black for white at her marriage to 33-year-old co-star Michael Weatherly, and with the tragic passing of R&B artist Aaliyah, rumors are resurfacing about her marriage at 15 to her mentor at the time, R. Kelly. But a lesson to keep in mind; for every Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillipe, there’s a Macaulay Culkin and Rachel Miner?...
...Director George Tenet was having a leisurely breakfast with his mentor, former Senator David Boren, at the St. Regis Hotel, when he got the news. Their omelettes had just arrived when Tenet's security detail descended with a cell phone. "Give me the quick summary," Tenet said calmly into the phone. He listened a few moments, and then told Boren: "The World Trade Center has been hit. We're pretty sure it wasn't an accident. It looks like a terrorist act." He then got back to the phone, named a dozen people he wanted summoned to the CIA situation...