Word: mentored
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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...
...brother, Raul, this past summer—makes this opportunity all the more timely. Harvard students can serve as cultural and ideological ambassadors to a country that has had only minimal contact with the U.S. in the past 45 years. The program plans to match Harvard undergraduates with a mentor from the network of 60 Cuban scholars that DRCLAS has built under its Cuban Studies research program since 1999. We hope that Harvard’s presence will open up avenues of dialogue previously unavailable to Americans and Cubans alike.While this is not the first time Harvard students have ventured...
...University President Lawrence H. Summers. Indeed, the two had met when Shleifer was a Harvard sophomore. According to an Institutional Investor article published in January of this year, rumor has it that he pointed out errors in one of Summers’ papers, and after that, the two became mentor and mentee, invisible hand in invisible hand...
...DIED. Robert Earl Jones, 96, veteran actor of stage and screen who famously played Robert Redford's con-man mentor in the Oscar-winning The Sting; in Englewood, New Jersey. The Mississippi native and onetime prizefighter lent his mellifluous voice and astute, low-key style to such Broadway shows as The Gospel at Colonus and All God's Chillun Got Wings, and won acclaim in 1962 for the off-Broadway Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, which co-starred his son and fellow baritone, James Earl Jones...
...matriarch Angel Day, who drags a statue of the Virgin Mary from the town dump, igniting a clan war in the process; her fish embalmer husband Norm, who dreams of the Gulf's mythical grouper hole; their rebel son Will, who violently opposes the local mine; and his mentor, Mozzie Fishman, who leads convoys of similarly disenchanted souls (and later Angel Day) to Dreaming sites across the state. Around them swirl stories large and small, glorious and grotesque, of epic quests and seeping social wounds, but cauterizing it all is the writer's earthy humor. "I've had a lifetime...