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...baring moments. He recalls how, during his first year in Greenough, living on the ground floor, he emerged from the shower, dropped his towel to change, and looked out the three large windows facing Prescott Street to find a crowd of people waving at him. These are moments the modest Curry would prefer to forget. Fans of the Advocate Men’s Issue, however, may remember “his” naked body forever...
Every once in a while, Shania Twain will munch on a carrot stick, whip her curly hair over her shoulder and issue a modest decree. It is worth paying attention to these pronouncements, even though Twain, who is Canadian and thus constitutionally averse to star trips, never quite means what she says. On a brisk October night, with the bleat of Paris traffic in her ears, the Twain fiat is this: she is going to stop singing in public. "I never burned to perform, and I don't care if I ever perform again," she says. "I have no need...
...linked to the al-Qaeda network around the world. But around 1975 Muslim nations in the Gulf and Asia, aided by the Islamic Development Bank, an organization fostering economic and social development in the Muslim world, started to offer Islamic financial services. The banks' first customers were modest families running small businesses. Over the past decade ifis gradually increased their global reach; most customers are small and medium-sized enterprises, Hassoune says. With the majority of ifis based in Asia and the Gulf region, Shari'a-friendly financial products for small businesses and middle-income individuals are only beginning...
Cserny was modest about her performance, deflecting the praise to her teammates...
...coach Frank Sullivan admitted after the game that the zone had proved beneficial in the early stages of the game and that he had not anticipated Turner’s proficiency down the stretch. One can’t blame Sullivan for thinking that, given Turner’s modest 8.8 ppg average in his first four games...