I frequently advise people who approach me without an introduction that they should start with someone who knows them, not with a stranger they would like to know.

Potential mentors may be motivated not by money or even generosity, but by pride they want to be recognized for the wisdom that they can share.

Consider my own interaction with Anderson. I frequently advise people who approach me without an introduction that they should start with someone who knows them, not with a stranger they would like to know.

Upon cross examination, the colonel stated that the Jamaa leadership continually changes, that his testimony was based on secret information, that the sources thereof could not be revealed because of risks to their lives and that he (the colonel) had had a supplementary role in the investigation alongside other officers whom he did not know.