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Little, Brown published Twilight on Oct. 5, 2005. It printed 75,000 copies, a generous but not stupendous number. "All the signs were there, but at the beginning they were modest," Tingley says. "The sales kept getting a little higher each week. It wasn't a gigantic phenomenon overnight - I think people think that now, but it wasn't." Lori Joffs, a stay-at-home mom in Nashville, read it three months later. Like Meyer, she's a Mormon, but she'd put off starting the book because she didn't think a Mormon writer could do vampires. "I read...
...Moon was published on Sept. 6, 2006, less than a year after Twilight. Little, Brown printed 100,000 copies, a modest increase, but the company quickly realized something had changed. Advance copies were popping up on eBay for hundreds of dollars. Meyer's readings were turning into mob scenes. "We were outside Philly at a suburban Barnes & Noble," Tingley says. "The kids had been cutting school to get these tickets and waiting in line forever. When Stephenie came out, these girls next to me started trembling and crying and grabbing each other. It was crazy ... it was like the newsreels...
...able to say from my own experience coming from modest means I have felt in no way hindered by my racial identity or economic status,” she says...
...Makhmalbaf said even modest steps are important, such as publicly mentioning opposition victims like Neda Agha-Soltan, the student shot dead during the June uprising who became an opposition symbol. (Obama mentioned her death, but not by name, the day he won the Nobel Peace Prize.) Washington also needs to recognize and respond to opposition statements, like the apology from Iran's leading dissident cleric, Ayatullah Ali Montazeri, for the 1979 U.S. embassy takeover. Montazeri was once heir-apparent to the revolution's founder, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, and his gesture on the 30th anniversary of the seizure was a risky...
Regents at the 174,000-student University of Wisconsin system have adopted tuition hikes of 5.5% for the past three years. UW System President Kevin P. Reilly says the "modest and predictable" increases have allowed the university to avoid curbing enrollment or cutting programs even as class sizes increase. UW-Madison's tuition still ranks as one of the lowest...