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...story and the center of the daughter’s longing, and Jorge indicates its significance from the beginning. But, despite the significance of this visit, the references to it and various other critical events in the story become repetitive through the novel. The most noticeable redundancy in this portion of novel is the fact that the main character doesn’t have a name; she is just referred to over and over again as “the daughter.” Throughout the first half of the novel, this visit, the image of Walter riding...
Equally unconvincing is PSLM’s insistence that $10 million is a small fraction of Harvard’s annual budget. While this sum may seem insignificant when viewed as a portion of the University’s overall expenditures, the absolute value of $10 million is nevertheless enormous—especially when one considers the academic work these dollars support. Are we really to think that Harvard serves society best by devoting $10 million to create marginal improvements for a couple thousand employees instead of, say, using that money to fund cancer research...
While a question-and-answer session held after the speeches was designated as the "teach-in" portion of the event, few crowd members actually spoke with the students inside the building...
When asked about the most difficult portion of the Hertz application process, Russ said, "the interviews are notoriously grueling, covering a wide range of physical knowledge. No one I've talked to has ever walked out of a Hertz interview thinking they did well. I am no exception...
...energy proposal that will be shortly submitted from the vice president's task force will include a small provision calling for opening up a small portion of ANWR for energy development," said the president's mouthpiece. So was Whitman getting ditched again? "I think there was some confusion... as a result of a newspaper story or magazine story, and then that confusion was resolved," Fleischer replied...