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...legislators sneaking a sweetheart raise to their leader, Sarkozy himself was defiantly unapologetic about the raise or its motives. "I want transparency," Sarkozy declared during a visit in Corsica, referring to the convoluted collection of revenues like advances on paid pensions that have long served to augment French Presidents' modest nominal salary of $12,000 monthly - to just what level is anyone's guess."I don't want that anymore. I want the French people to know...
Playing a little “Hotel California” on his acoustic guitar during an interview with The Crimson, Lipton was modest about the band’s recent national success...
...introduced other innovations. The changes are finally starting to draw respectable audiences of curious Shanghainese. At last summer's three-week run of Palace of Eternal Youth, a Tang dynasty love tragedy, two thirds of the audience were under the age of 35, and the production netted $92,000 - modest by the standards of Covent Garden or La Scala, but equal to the Shanghai Kunqu Opera Theatre's revenue for the whole of 2006. "It thrills me to know that these are the same melodies listened to by people 600 years ago," says 25-year-old marketing manager...
...years later, two veterans of the Crusade founded an order of monastic knights to protect the travelers. They were allotted a headquarters in Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque, viewed by Jews and many Christians as the site of the Temple of Solomon - hence the new group's name. Initially modest (its coat of arms was two knights on one horse because that was all they could afford), its fortunes skyrocketed when the Vatican extended it extraordinary privileges, exempting it from local laws, taxes and any authority but the Pope's. Suddenly it was bestowed with spectacular gifts of money...
...Surely Ahmadinejad’s convictions about Jews, gays, and women cannot even compare to the relatively modest assertion that some Muslims advocate terrorism. But judging by these newspapers’ responses, one could presume that David Horowitz makes Ahmadinejad seem like Mickey Mouse...