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NEWS ABOUT: mentor

mentor stories: 2 news summaries



 Michelle Tapped 
 Longtime Pal, 
 Mentor as 
 Staff Chief 

Longtime friends worked together in Chicago

Jul 20, 09 9:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Looking for change, Michelle Obama turned to longtime mentor and friend Susan Sher to serve as her chief of staff, the Chicago Tribune reports. They met when Obama dropped off a resume at Chicago’s City Hall; Sher, then the city’s No. 2 lawyer, was immediately impressed by the... More »

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Chicago • Michelle Obama • first lady • Obama administration • chief of staff • mentor • Susan Sher

A Baptist and a Mullah
Team Up to Fight Taliban

US captain urges Afghan colonel to show faith to locals

Jul 16, 09 9:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Baptist Army officer has teamed up with an Afghan mullah to fight Taliban propaganda that calls the Afghan army godless. “The only way we can keep people from becoming Taliban is by promoting the Muslim nature of the Afghan National Army,” says the mullah, Lt. Col. Abdul... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • propaganda • US military • Afghan Army • Baptist • mullahs • mentor

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