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...whether she can keep her troops in line. "They listen to no one," she told TIME earlier this year. "They don't even listen to each other." Pelosi's initial goals, which she says she wants to accomplish in the Democrats' first 100 legislative hours in power, are modest and relatively uncontroversial. She would have the House pass bills aimed at raising the minimum wage, cutting student-loan interest rates, allowing the Federal Government to negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies for lower drug prices for Medicare patients, and reforming lobbying practices...
...Royal is shaking up the French political scene. As you must know, this country has survived much more dangerous shaking, political or otherwise. And although Royal is quite right in declaring that one should not have to be "sad, ugly and boring to go into politics," what about being modest? Jean-Jacques Luccioni St.-Laurent-du-Var, France...
...Eldridge says. “People there were like, ‘oh I’ve always wanted to see “Casablanca,” but I never knew [this theatre] existed.’” Hinkle says the session was a modest success. “As always there’s great new ideas and ideas that we’ve already thought about and worked on,” he says. But he says it will be challenging for the Brattle to convert the abstract suggestions into a concrete plan of action...
...native country, died just a week after David was born, Banda struggled to raise his son with the help of relatives and friends. But a month later he sent David to the orphanage where Madonna would later find him. TIME reporter Peter Kumwenda interviewed Banda in his modest home this week...
...help fuel a modest turnaround. Sales in the U.S. are up 11.8% through September of this year, thanks to all-new versions of the Jetta, Passat and Golf (now going by its old name, Rabbit), and Eos has sold out since debuting last month. But analysts estimate VW will lose an additional $800 million in the region in 2006, and they aren't sanguine about 2007. Until VW can address some production and quality issues, it can forget about profitable growth. "North America is one of VW's intractable problems," says Stephen Cheetham, an analyst with Bernstein Research in London...