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...fully loaded, putting it in league with hot models from BMW, Cadillac and Lexus. And its Phaeton - a sedan that cost over $900 million to develop, with an optional 12-cylinder engine and a sticker price expected to top $85,000 - hits American dealerships in December with a modest sales target. (The Touareg, which is seeing growing demand in the States and was named Motor Trend magazine's SUV of the year, was introduced in Germany last November and sold 9,200 units in Europe in the first half of 2003; the Phaeton, available in Europe for more than...
...single to discover that the College administration was going to eat his library. And his basketball courts. No space in the Quad, it seemed, was immune to the new strategy of rezoning; Dartboard half-expected to come home late some night and find the left three-quarters of his modest closet occupied by a handful of confused Dunsterites, doing their best to partake in Harvard’s newest nebulous “social space...
...Gienapp was so bright but yet so modest about his knowledge,” said McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History Steven Ozment. “At times he would blossom and become the most witty person you could ever talk...
Given performances like that, even the modest Moore will admit his big chance is coming...
...themselves in a decade or so. The youngest beginners, whom Nguyen teaches, “don’t know what college means yet,” but she says she “tries to develop a love of learning for them.” Nguyen is too modest to credit herself with her students’ success and it’s hard to tell for sure whether a six-year-old can sit still long enough to “love learning.” Something’s working though. Still excited from his chance meeting...