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...Mehsud, thought to be about 35, is an uneducated Pashtun tribesman from a modest clan; his family reportedly made their living driving trucks. He suffers from diabetes...
...James isn't technically a member of the entitled class - the Brennans' family home is modest - but he acts that way. As he whines his way through the early minutes of the movie, it seems what he needs is a character-developing stint at the dump. Like Zach Braff's character in Garden State, James is a visitor in his hometown, convinced that bigger is better (his goal, naturally, is to move to New York). But that's where the similarity ends. James is no morose hipster caught up in memories of the past. Nor is he Benjamin Braddock, lolling...
...Chinese water spinach, cooked in a chili-infused shrimp paste known as belachan. For dessert, go for the sago gula melaka, a mixture of boiled sago, warm coconut milk, palm sugar and shaved ice. The cost of an average dinner for two (without alcohol) is around $50, a modest tariff for food that is invariably sedap. That's Baba Malay for "delicious," and a word that will hopefully live for a long time...
...only a 14% reduction in the same period - and that may well be the point. While it's hard to envision such a unabashedly liberal climate-change proposal passing Congress in the current climate, it could provide some much needed cover for the Administration by making its goals seem modest (and moderate) by comparison. (See a graphic on the global effects of climate change...
...Harvard would have had to pay at the end of June 30, a figure given in the annual financial report.Even though Molinaro said Princeton has never used interest rate swaps with regard to its debt portfolio because they decided “the incremental risk was not worth the modest savings” of a lower interest rate, Scudder said that such swaps are widely used by institutions seeking to reduce exposure to variable rate bonds.Shore declined to comment yesterday on the current value of the swap portfolio, and would not say whether more of the swaps had been terminated...