Word: mentored
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...Olmert wooed Lieberman in part to preempt the Yisrael Beiteinu leader from coupling with his one-time mentor and leader of the Likud opposition, former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. While the move maintains the primacy of Olmert's Kadima party, some questioned how a Prime Minister already under fire for his management of the Hizballah war could hand Lieberman, who has no military or intelligence background, a position that carries at least some responsibility for watching Iran, which many Israeli leaders identify as their country's greatest threat...
Whenever he needed advice while growing up in Yakima, Wash., Doug Meckelson always turned to his grandmother and favorite mentor, Revay Meckelson. She died in 1987, but he found similar sage counsel when he volunteered five years ago at a senior center in San Francisco. "As I listened to these elders," recalls Meckelson, 45, "I thought how great it'd be to set up a website where cybergrandparents could share their life experiences to help others, just as my grandmother had done with...
...sculpture anywhere in the West.” The sculpture was originally bought in Japan in 1936 by the grandfather of Walter C. Sedgwick ’69, who was also a Harvard alum. Sedgwick inherited the piece, and, inspired by a professor of Asian art who was his mentor during his undergraduate years, turned to collecting. He soon acquired the two other pieces. Prince Shotoku was the founder of Japanese Buddhism, according to Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture Yukio Lippit. “This is the earliest dated example of the subject, and is especially significant...
...Symonds was not only the primary liaison between the student-run Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) and the administrative Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA), he was also a technical guru and mentor for techies at Harvard...
Ganeshananthan, like her mentor, has worked at big-name publications before her first novel hits bookshelves. She has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic Monthly, the American Prospect, and the Chronicle of Higher Education...