Word: mentored
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...History 2709: “Themes in Modern Sub-Saharan African History: Proseminar.” She will also teach another course in the spring. “Being in her classroom is an incredibly exciting experience. She balances being a challenging professor with being an understanding and encouraging mentor,” said Meghan A. Shutzer ’10, a social studies concentrator who took two courses taught by Elkins. “I think she brings the best out of her students. I wanted to go to her class every day,” she added. Elkins...
Khazei called the Senator “an extraordinary mentor and a great friend,” and said it was Kennedy’s example that first made him consider entering politics. Nafees A. Syed ’10, who served as one of Khazei’s liaisons during his fellowship, said she was happy to learn that he would be seeking the Senate seat...
...unshakable Chirac supporter and longtime Elysée chief of staff, de Villepin shared his mentor's hatred of Sarkozy, who in 1994 dropped nearly 20 years of filial devotion to Chirac to back an unexpected presidential run by a rival conservative politician. Chirac won that contest - and promptly sent Sarkozy into political exile until 2002, when law-and-order hard-liner Sarkozy was tapped for a key Interior Ministry post. But neither Chirac nor de Villepin ever forgave Sarkozy...
...remark was vintage Elson, who died on Sept. 7 at 78. In his four decades at TIME, Elson wrote more than a dozen cover stories and edited hundreds more. He had eclectic interests and a skepticism that had no patience for cant or showboaters. Budding editors had no better mentor. Elson once said the process of editing was the opposite of the American jurisprudence system, in that every writer was guilty until proved innocent. He had good advice for writers as well. "Never let the search for the perfect get in the way of the perfectly good," he would...
...early 2008, Karzai set up a Peace and National Reconciliation program headed by his old mentor, Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, a religious scholar and former President. The U.S. and other donors put up $3 million, but refused to contribute more after they learned that Mojaddedi, 83, spent a large chunk of the money on salaries for his family and loyal retainers. "Mojaddedi's people say they had 5,000 Taliban hand over their guns," says one angry Afghan official, "but I asked them if they had any big commanders among them, and they couldn't name a single...