Word: mentored
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...acrimonious aftermath. The Kurds want to resolve such contentious issues as Kirkuk while their power is at its peak; the Shiites insist it should be done on the basis of a consensus achieved in the new Assembly. And the electorate that put the Shiites in power - and their mentor, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani - are unlikely to accept the legitimacy of any such far-reaching agreements achieved on this basis. Sistani himself never accepted the TAL, and urged that it be changed by an elected Iraqi body, not simply because its authors had been a U.S. occupation authority but because...
Couldn’t it be that this media-hyped conflict is all just metaphorical theatre? That Game and his former mentor are merely stand-ins for the prominent characters in the larger historical genesis of the struggle of Harvard and Yale—a metanarrative setting the stage for the actual The Game...
...CCSC charter specifically anticipated a relationship with Harvard, based around the College Opportunity And Career Help program (COACH), a mentor program run through the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) to prepare high school students for college...
...organize an opposition movement. The three who refused--a poet, an Islamist scholar and a political-science professor--are still in jail. Last week I visited their lawyer, a cautious young man named Khalid Farah al-Mutairy, who joined the case because the political scientist had been his mentor. "I was surprised when he decided not to sign the pledge," al-Mutairy said with some dismay...
Ellie McGrath, Williams' former editor and mentor, founded a publishing house and secured a printer on the writer's behalf. Meanwhile, Williams worked during weeks in intensive care, editing from her hospital bed. When Williams contracted pneumonia in May 2004, McGrath figured someone else would have to finalize the edits. "But as aggressive as her tumor was, Stephanie was just as aggressive," says McGrath. "When I handed her the galleys, she pulled off her oxygen mask and pointed out an error in the typeface." In June, Williams finally held copies of her novel, Enter Sandman, printed months ahead of schedule...