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University President Lawrence H. Summers saw a modest 4.5 percent raise in salary in fiscal year 2004, according to Harvard’s tax return, which was filed Monday with the Internal Revenue Service...
...result? A modest little pedestal just over 1 ft. high and 3 in. wide, with a gently convex front and slightly in-curving sides. It's sleeker and slimmer than the old Xbox. (One of the reasons the first one tanked in Japan is that Japanese consumers, having smaller apartments, are very space conscious.) It's also a little feminine--there's a hint of an hourglass figure. There are very few cables because the controllers are wireless. It has chrome accents, but it's mostly a creamy, calming off-white that the color geniuses call chill...
...jump into a pixilated version of a car when you've got a real one sitting in your driveway? But then the sticky-ball idea rolled, fully formed, into Takahashi's head. What would it feel like, he wondered, to push such an object? The game was a modest success in Japan. But when it reached the U.S. last fall, retailers couldn't keep it on the shelves. "I'm happy going through this games phase of my life, where I get paid and can eat," Takahashi says. He may not understand his fame, in other words...
...Explaining to the public the costs of even modest rates of inflation is a vital part of Fed communication,” he wrote...
...cites Blondie as an influence. Nevertheless, tracks from Charm School like “Little Black Ache,” “Eve of Destruction,” and “Busted Heart” evoke “The Moon and Antarctica”-era Modest Mouse...