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...even as the site continues to expand to millions of students across the country, Hughes said the company has not forgotten its modest beginnings...

Author: By Sam Teller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Facebook.com Gets Facelift, New Features | 9/16/2005 | See Source »

Junior tailback Clifton Dawson is an unlikely celebrity. With a reputation for being private, laconic, and modest, he isn’t one to seek the spotlight, attention, or adoration...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FOOTBALL PREVIEW 2005: All Eyes On Him | 9/16/2005 | See Source »

...think a modest approach requires beginning with the body of precedent,” Schumer said. “That’s what judges do. And that’s a recognition, just as Professor Ford said, that...we’re not smarter than our fathers who laid down this precedent...

Author: By Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nominee Spars With Senators | 9/16/2005 | See Source »

...have an overarching judicial philosophy that I bring to every case,” he said yesterday, adding that “a modest approach to judging” would benefit the American legal system...

Author: By Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Senate Committee Questions Roberts | 9/14/2005 | See Source »

...Sisyphean endeavor. The Guardsmen, flying above the city in their Black Hawks to rescue survivors, have seen what residents stranded without electricity could not--the utter devastation out east in St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes, where the Gulf of Mexico has played no favorites, inundating millionaire McMansions and modest homes alike. In the middle of an intersection sits an abandoned wheelchair, water lapping at the handlebars, its occupant carried who knows where by the floodwaters. Cars line another roadway, their doors open as if the drivers thought they could outrun the 20-ft. surges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life Among the Ruins | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

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