Word: mentored
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...when she formally accepted her party's nomination for re-election at the state Democratic convention. Hillary's handlers had the good sense to plant Bill in the audience and not onstage until after she had finished the speech in which she hailed him as "an inspiration and a mentor and a friend and a partner." But for at least 15 minutes after she and every other politician had left, he lingered at the microphones, answering reporters' questions, oblivious to aides trying to scoot...
...trying to prove he was right to see the war as "manifestly illegal," and as a result, to refuse to participate. "A soldier has an obligation to disobey illegal orders," said Francis Boyle, a Harvard-trained professor of international law who testified on behalf of Lt. Watada and whose mentor wrote the Army's field manual for land warfare. "Under the circumstances of this war, if he had deployed, he would have been facilitating a Nuremberg crime against peace...
...Involvement in organized football helps the Aboriginal Greatorex in his job as a police officer. He's juggling the roles of coach, mentor and law enforcer. "Building rapport through the Hawks has paid off immensely in my work," he says. "There might be a big brawl down at the pub. You can work the crowd more effectively because you've got respect in the community. They know who you are. They don't just see you as some robotic cop depriving people of their liberty." Three other officers are also involved in the club, whose player base is as diverse...
...just knew that that was something I wanted to do," she says. "Before I could read, my mother will tell stories of how I would just pester her constantly to read to me." When she was in college at Colgate, Edwards studied with Frederick Busch, who became a mentor. After earning her MFA in fiction and an MA in theoretical linguistics, both from the University of Iowa, she and her husband spent five years teaching English in Southeast Asia - Malaysia, Japan, and Cambodia. "It was a time of great learning and great growth and great excitement," she says. "The chatter...
...nights a week in the living room because Rusty had not found a church he liked. He had learned the faults of organized religion from Michael Woroniecki, the traveling preacher who had sold him the bus. Rusty did not agree completely with the extreme views of his old spiritual mentor. But Andrea, moved by the repent-or-burn zeal, wound up exchanging letters with the preacher and his wife for years after they bought the bus. Woroniecki wrote that "the role of woman is derived...from the sin of Eve" and that bad children come from bad mothers. Sometimes...