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Sebastián credits the position with saving his grad school career, but there are downsides. Tutor duties take time away from research. So do the sophomore advising coordinator, teaching fellow, and exam grader positions he holds to earn a little more. This week, he received an e-mail from Kirkland saying he and Mariana have gone over their meal quota and will have to cut back. And for a while this semester, the students across the wall from Mariana’s room were having particularly loud...
Monique Pinto, a sixth grader who has spent eight years in the OLA program, also voiced concern over the potential changes...
...into a soda bottle during class and threw it in a math instructor's face. Crazy stuff. After hearing the big explosion, Hayes and his friends rushed out of the room and discovered that someone had set off fireworks in the corridor. "The school was in chaos," the 11th-grader remembers of the 2005 incident. "People were laughing and screaming and saying, 'Do another one, do another!' It was out of hand. But," he adds, in a succinct assessment of the crisis in U.S. public education today, "it's not like we were learning anything in class anyway...
...work in front of the mike was a different matter. What aspiring movie star goes into cartoon voice work? One who has the comic aptitude for it. Murphy provided the voice for Gloria the penguin, the hero's gal pal in Happy Feet, as well as Tank the Eighth Grader on the Disney animated series Pepper Ann. By the time she was 20 she'd won the role of Luanne, Peggy Hill's dizzy niece, on King of the Hill - and, just because she could, she also voiced the role of Bobby Hill's best friend Joseph (until Joseph...
...What could be more natural than worrying that your child might be trampled by the great, scary, globally competitive world into which she will one day be launched? It is this fear that inspires parents to demand homework in preschool, produce the snazzy bilingual campaign video for the third-grader's race for class rep, continue to provide the morning wake-up call long after he's headed off to college...