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...with working-class adults. Fox's Luis (Fridays, 8:30 p.m. E.T.), starring Luis Guzman as a struggling doughnut-shop owner in Spanish Harlem, is a parade of urban stereotypes, while NBC's midseason The Tracy Morgan Show (with the Saturday Night Live vet as a garage owner of modest means) is a cliched family-comedy...
...been killed by a dynamite bomb set by the Ku Klux Klan at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. The church was a focal point of Birmingham's civil rights turmoil that year, but that unrest hadn't touched Virgil and his coal-mining family, who lived in a modest, all-black suburb and rarely even saw white people. All Virgil had on his mind that day was the money he and his brothers were going to make with the newspaper route they had just secured...
This year, of course, our scouting skills are again atrophying; we’ve instead been forced to draw on the more modest store of skills acquired in grade school art class. In June, as you’ve probably heard, outgoing Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68, declaring that it was “simply imprudent to continue as we have been and to hope for the best,” forbade us to use any of the nearly 2000 fireplaces in undergraduate houses.. Never mind that significantly more drug-addled generations than...
Edwards twice turned modest gains into drive-making receptions with speed and sheer determination combining for dozens of yards after the catch, his fluid lateral movement leaving opposing safeties tackling nothing...
...nascent bbc-sponsored "free satellite" movement - in July the bbc made its satellite transmission free to anyone with a satellite receiver - plus a feisty new multichannel TV operation called Freeview (which attracted 1.6 million customers in less than a year), and BSkyB could be looking at much more modest growth. As the subscriber pool diminishes, BSkyB is under increasing pressure to extract more revenue from each user. Yet the percentage of viewers signing up for the pricey $61-per-month premium service is in slow decline relative to those committing to the $19 basic service. BSkyB hopes to offset this...