Word: modeste
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...cross-legged on the bare concrete floor of his family home and vows vengeance against his father's killers. "I am so angry now that I will kill to defend my family and my faith," says Makasan. "I want revenge." Crowded around him in the front room of his modest house last Thursday are a couple of dozen grieving, enraged relatives and friends. Along with several hundred other impoverished rubber tappers, Makasan lives in Som, a dusty village situated in Pattani province in Thailand's deep south. The villagers are mourning the loss of Makasan's 63-year-old father...
...successful launches in lawn-and-garden gear. Even these beginner models, like the L130, have feature lists out of an auto showroom: "more leg room," "deluxe-comfort" seat, two-pedal automatic transmission. Jeff Barron, a power-equipment specialist at a Home Depot in McDonough, Ga., says some customers with modest yards want to impress the neighbors with the iconic brand: "There are people who buy one, keep it in the garage and have somebody else use it to cut their grass...
...repressive Islamic Republic of Iran, a cleric isn't a very popular thing to be nowadays. Mohsen Kadivar is a celebrated exception. A theorist behind Iran's struggling democracy movement, the modest mullah packs lecture halls like a pop star and attracts readers like a pulp-fiction author. Students in his graduate philosophy classes at Tarbiat Modarres University in Tehran hang on his every utterance. Kadivar, 44, has found academic stardom a dangerous occupation in Iran--in 1999 he was jailed for 18 months for his ideas. But his scholarly perseverance has led to breakthroughs in one of the great...
...think that most objections to this very reasonable modest proposal are blatant transphobia,” Skier said. “Saying that people don’t deserve to go to the bathroom which is a basic student life or workplace issue is equivalent to saying that transgender people shouldn’t be at Harvard and that is just wrong...
...much more responsible way, to account for past years’ inflation. The architect of the amendment that made the present referendum binding, Joshua A. Barro ’05, estimates that a fee increase to account for past years’ inflation would represent a justifiable and modest 12 percent increase, to about $42. This is exactly the type of modest increase that’s needed—not the pipe dream currently under consideration...