Word: mentored
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...seven or so lines just as well, and for a fraction of the price. And Jeff Bridges—who most forget was also an Oscar nominee for “The Contender”—is just painful as Clooney’s drugged-out mentor, Lieutenant Colonel Bill Django. The use of the actors’ names here and not those of their characters is more than mere convention; the people who inhabit “The Men Who Stare at Goats” are so simplistic that there is no chance of the actors becoming...
...naming of an honorary economic advisor to a small Southeast Asian country doesn't usually make news. But Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's designation of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra as his financial mentor on Wednesday has sparked an international ruckus, with both countries trading trans-border barbs and recalling their respective ambassadors...
According to Walker, who’s also a Crimson arts writer, every student production on campus is given an A.R.T. mentor. Walker’s mentor last year attended rehearsals, tech week, and even frequently met for coffee to give her advice...
...political feuding goes back more than a decade. In 1995, Sarkozy betrayed longtime mentor Jacques Chirac by throwing his support behind a rival conservative candidate in the presidential election. Chirac won, named Villepin, his former campaign director, as his Elysée chief of staff and banished Sarkozy to a humiliating political exile. Sarkozy's punishment finally ended in 2002 when Chirac, eager to exploit the younger man's well-known hard-line attitude on law and order, tapped him as Interior Minister. Sarkozy's efforts there and in later Cabinet posts boosted his popularity just as he was consolidating...
Levitt describes his favored subject matter as "questions that are too embarrassing and degrading for other economists to find interesting." The pioneer at using economic methods to explore subjects not normally seen as economic was Levitt's Chicago mentor, Gary Becker, who won a Nobel in 1992 for his work on marriage, crime and other topics. A few years ago, another economist applauded this work as "economic imperialism" because it invaded realms dominated by sociologists and political scientists...