Or, for an enthusiastic, just-out-of-school achiever, a fast track to a mentor program or relationship.

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In addition, they were able to meet every two weeks with Chris Conde, former CEO of SunGard, who acts as a mentor in the program and has since joined the boards of two of the participating firms.

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Afghan Foreign Ministry spokesman Janan Mosazai says there has been a greater sharing of intelligence between his country and China, and a joint U.S.-Chinese program to mentor junior Afghan diplomats.

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Cara Whitney, a radiology student in Pennsylvania, filed a lawsuit this week to try to get back into her community college after being forced out due to Facebook gossip about the bizarre behavior of her mentor in the radiology program.

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These same executives agreed to mentor the startups during the program.

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She also recently became a mentor at Yale in the WISAY program.

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Murdock played in the NBA and was viewed in the program as someone who could mentor players.

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But Mr. Karzai's move Sunday to ban U.S. Special Operations Forces from working in Wardak where they likely mentor the ALP is a blow to the program.

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Dajani is currently a mentor on Mentornet, hosted here in the U.S. and AMENDS, a program sponsored by Stanford University.

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