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...Late last month, to a modest amount of media applause, ?CBS SM? turned 25. Host Charles Osgood and his crew threw themselves a nostalgic little party, opening the video scrapbook on the January 25 broadcast and whisking the dust from some venerable stories to air them again. Twenty-five in TV years is ancient; only a liver-spotted handful of weekly shows have lasted that long. But ?CBS SM? is, by nature, older than that - forever looking back, finding resonance in an anniversary or obituary, as if it were the memory bank for the Alzheimer?s generation...
...many feel that professors themselves should take the initiative to retire at a modest...
...Trevor-Roper formed a triumvirate of gifted scholars whose efforts to understand the turmoil of the 20th century widely influenced modern thought. After spending World War II as a BBC correspondent, Bullock produced his Hitler biography from a detailed review of the minutes of the Nuremberg trials. He was modest about his talents. "I couldn't write great literature," he said, "but I could do a workmanlike job as a historian...
Clark is a model of frugality as well. She and her husband Dorrance raised 10 children on modest salaries. When he developed lung cancer in 1991, she stopped working to care for him until he died. She has lived in the same house since she was 1 year old. She seldom buys anything for herself, reuses already reused sewing material and carefully budgets her food money. "You plan out what you can afford," she says...
...will be given to the New England Patriots' Bill Belichick and the Carolina Panthers' John Fox during Sunday's Super Bowl XXXVIII, in Houston. Fox may try to mute the two coaches' importance--"He and I aren't going to play a single snap"--but he can hardly be modest about his achievement since taking the Panthers' reins early in 2002. No other NFL team has gone from a 1-15 season to the Super Bowl in just two years. Underdogs all this season, the Panthers relied on an insistent running game and a demolishing defense. They got to Houston...