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...teaching fellows. I wonder if this objection is really compelling. Contrary to popular belief, a recent study showed that most college students are under-worked. College students spend only thirty hours a week on academic affairs. Most students in the humanities and social sciences only average between twelve and fifteen hours in class per week; some can arrange as few as eight hours...
Hijuelos' novel presents a communion, a coming-together. As a photographer during the Spanish-American War in 1898 Cubs Irish immigrant Nelson O'Brien meets Mariela Montez, whom he marries and takes home to the States. Margarita, the first of their fifteen children, is born at sea on route to America. Her recollections form the backbone of the novel, which recounts the fate of the fourteen sisters and the one brother. Emilio...
...memoir cleverly intersperses the narrative of Offutt's wife's pregnancy with the sordid anecdotes of his youth. He sets his fifteen years of wandering against the nine months of expectancy, illustrating the transformation from carefree adventurer to father with well-ordered contrast. The father-to-be balks at the notion of parental responsibility, just as his youthful self fled from the restraints of any long-term career or romance...
...Fifteen Goldsmith Research Awards, for excellence in journalism-related academic research, were also presented at the ceremony
...ratified by Congress, NAFTA would eliminate virtually all import-export barriers among the United States, Canada and Mexico over the next fifteen years. The fact that the 360 million consumers in this free trade area would automatically benefit from lowered prices should be a major impetus for the treaty's ratification...