Word: mentoring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mentor and Friend...
Aside from his roles in student organizations, Gomes has been a professor and mentor to many. He currently teaches two courses at the Divinity School, and an Extension School course called, "Harvard, Institution and Idea...
...strips and contorts her, plies her, woos her, drives her to boredom, exasperation, tears. He is, in last week's favorite phrase, her mentor and tormentor. What the aging artist Frenhofer (Michel Piccoli) does to his young model, Marianne (Emmanuelle Beart), as she poses for his first painting in years, is a disinterested kind of sexual harassment for art's sake. These sittings, a seduction on canvas, fill more than half of Jacques Rivette's four-hour La Belle Noiseuse. The phrase is loosely translated as "the beautiful nut case," but Frenhofer, not Marianne, is the genial lunatic...
From this perspective, women have a lot to lose if they press the issue of sexual harassment too far. Particularly in white-collar settings, younger workers rely on mentors to help them learn the ropes and advance their careers. If a boss is afraid that his interest in a protege's success will be misconstrued, the safer path is to avoid mentor relationships. "While it is perfectly fine -- and normal -- for a mentor to say to a man, 'Let's have a drink, or play golf, and talk about that promotion,' it's harder for a mentor to do that...
...another member of Boren's committee, Sen. Bill Bradley (D-N.J.), said Gates was too entwined with the abuses of the 1980s, when his mentor William Casey headed the agency, to restore CIA credibility...