She became a Democrat just last year, after a long feud with her onetime mentor, Gov. George E. Pataki.

Master Jojonah spent a long time staring at this wrinkled old man, his onetime mentor who had become his nemesis.

Lucas has also looked longingly at the career of Francis Ford Coppola, his onetime mentor.

It is a voice from the past, the voice of Harry Kramer, her onetime mentor and idol, a man she hasn't laid eyes on in decades.

And that's nothing compared with the injury to Arnold's onetime mentor, George Washington.

But with Ms. Clarke's decision to oppose her onetime mentor in the Democratic primary on Sept. 12, the relationship has dissolved into pure rancor.

He had also broken with his friend and onetime mentor, Ezra Pound, and had not produced any serious work for some time.

Maybe, Rothkopf suggests, she is finally learning the wisdom of her onetime mentor, Brent Scowcroft.

But it was the latest spat in an increasingly ugly struggle between the president and his onetime mentor, the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The expanded Ace is Mr. Duperreault's opportunity to emulate his onetime mentor.