Word: modeste
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...themselves in a decade or so. The youngest beginners, whom Nguyen teaches, “don’t know what college means yet,” but she says she “tries to develop a love of learning for them.” Nguyen is too modest to credit herself with her students’ success and it’s hard to tell for sure whether a six-year-old can sit still long enough to “love learning.” Something’s working though. Still excited from his chance meeting...
...Sunni triangle, the remnants of the Baath Party regime are thought to still account for a sizable segment of the anti-American militants. But U.S. officials believe they are making progress against the loyalists, as more figures from the deposed regime are captured or killed. Pentagon officers say the modest scale of the attacks suggests that they are conducted by small cells operating largely on their own. "If they could launch bigger attacks," says a Central Command officer, "they would...
Some of today's IPOs are even more seasoned--like Journal Communications, a Midwestern newspaper and media company, and National Financial Partners, a financial-services firm run by Jessica Bibliowicz, daughter of Citigroup chairman Sandy Weill. Both make money, and both have seen their shares rise in a modest but steady fashion. "Very few companies today are able to raise money on just a wish," says Jay Chandler, head of equity syndication at Merrill Lynch. "That late-'90s-style IPO market is not open for business...
...souvenir puppet and squeeze in a little shopping in the Liulichang Road pedestrian zone. Information: 29 Dong Liulichang Road, Xuanwu. $6. Puppets from $4. Reservations recommended; tel: (86-135) 6303 6667 Dubai: Wild Wadi At this Arabian Nights-themed water park, Western teenagers in bikinis and Arab girls in modest swimwear enjoy simulated white-water rapids, tidal waves and underground rivers. The brave shoot down the Jumeirah Sceirah water slide at 80 km/h. Information: Western shore of Persian Gulf, near Burj al Arab and Jumeirah Beach resort hotels. Adults $32, 4-12s $27; tel: (971-4) 348 4444; www.wildwadi.com...
...DUBAI: WILD WADI At this Arabian Nights-themed water park, Western teenagers in bikinis and Arab girls in modest swimwear enjoy simulated white-water rapids, tidal waves and underground rivers. The brave shoot down the Jumeirah Sceirah water slide at 80 km/h. Information: Western shore of Persian Gulf, near Burj al Arab and Jumeirah Beach resort hotels. Adults $32, 4-12s $27; tel: (971-4) 348 4444; www.wildwadi.com...