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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lead paragraph (taut and lean) to where to find the world's greatest tomato soup (New Delhi's Ashok Hotel). "When I came here in 1971," says editor at large Strobe Talbott, "Bill made a point of guiding me through the mysteries of the place. He had a mentor quality that was very comforting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From The Managing Editor: Jun. 15, 1992 | 6/15/1992 | See Source »

...than 20 years, Milosevic moved up the communist hierarchy in Stambolic's wake, succeeding him as director of the state-owned industrial gas conglomerate Tehnogas, as Belgrade chief of the Communist Party and eventually as boss of the Serbian Communist Party. When the time came to slough off his mentor in late 1987, he did so with ruthless precision. By 1989 he was the unchallenged president of Serbia and today presides over what is left of Yugoslavia: Serbia, Montenegro and the two provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slobodan Milosevic:The Butcher of the Balkans | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

...Kansas is where he started writing poetry, in a summer school class at Washburn University in 1983. It was a class for young writers, and the students began by writing the kinds of adolescent fiction they themselves read. The class was taught by Thomas Fox Averill, the mentor whom Kevin dedicated one of the poems in him thesis. "We wrote those 'Create Your Own Mystery' things, you know, where someone would write the first chapter, and you would write the next one, "Kevin says. Later in the class, they began writing poetry. "All the fictions I wrote [Averill] took...

Author: By Kelly A. E. mason, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Poet Who Is Wary of the 'Burden of Representation' | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...University grows larger and faculty more distant from the student body, the role of academic mentor has fallen upon resident tutors, usually graduate students...

Author: By Yin Y. Nawaday, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Resident Tutors | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...remarkable about Carlin is that he has been a groundbreaker in at least three incarnations. In the mid-'60s he was a short-haired, fast-talking comedian who influenced a generation of stand-ups with his deft skewering of pop culture and the media. Others (like Carlin's mentor, Lenny Bruce) had poked fun at these subjects, but none with as sharp an eye or as much performing brio. Carlin's unctuous radio deejays, TV newscasters and commercial pitchmen were not simple parodies; he used them to satirize a whole society that had its priorities out of whack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Testing The Limits | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

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