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Club Passim is easy to miss. Tucked under the Globe Corner bookstore on Church Street, it is small and unassuming. One room houses a vegetarian/vegan café, and the other is a modest performance space with room for an audience of 125. Though Passim is located just a block from the Coop, few Harvard students have ever been there...
...supposed to be a caricature of the “typical feminist,” employed for the wily tactics of the theatrical and substance-devoid media. It was a travesty that possibly ended my interest in broadcast media—not to mention robbed me of my modest, if delusional, bout with fame...
Corporate gifts saw modest gains in 2004, rising 3.5 percent, which the survey attributed to “moderate recovery in the stock market.” Contributions from foundations, however, dropped 6.1 percent...
...lines gathered at center ice for the ensuing faceoff, the public address system announced Corriero’s record and the crowd rose in applause and appreciation. Corriero, for her part, simply lifted her stick in a modest gesture of acknowledgement...
From the world as a whole, the amount of aid per African per year is really very small, just $30 per sub-Saharan African in 2002. Of that modest amount, almost $5 was actually for consultants from the donor countries, more than $3 was for emergency aid, about $4 went for servicing Africa's debts and $5 was for debt-relief operations. The rest, about $12, went to Africa. Since the "money down the drain" argument is heard most frequently in the U.S., it's worth looking at the same calculations for U.S. aid alone. In 2002, the U.S. gave...