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...cool, innovative and had character development. And it avoided the ethical dregs through which Fox is now trudging to attract viewers. While many people admired Survivor, most are just disgusted with Temptation Island, even though enough are surreptitiously intrigued with voyeuristic interest for the show to make a modest splash. But who’s committed to a show where there is no winner, no virtues and no survival skills to be valued?After missing the bandwagon on the first entrees into reality TV, Fox vowed a year ago to move away from “shockumentaries” like...
...Always modest, Moore stressed the playmaking abilities of his linemates. And while assistant captain Chris Bala, rookie winger Tim Pettit, and the elder Moore certainly did their part in setting up Dom's first collegiate hat trick, no one can take anything away from...
...pool tucked in amid hundred-year-old trees. Nearby is the Naval Observatory, the British embassy and Vernon Jordan. The Clintons are so close to the vice-presidential mansion they will be able to see Allied Van Lines pull up and cart the Gore possessions off to a modest residence in suburban Virginia, and then watch the Cheneys move...
Somalia's seat of government is two modest Mogadishu hotels. The Prime Minister and most of the ministers have small, basic offices in the three-story Ramadan, where a coil of barbed wire stretches across the driveway and visitors are frisked for weapons at the door. "I haven't made new business cards yet," says Prime Minister Ali Khalif Galaydh, handing over a card identifying him as the chairman of a telephone company based in Dubai. "We have no furniture, no stationery, no buildings. We have nothing." Parliament met for the first time in a blue-and-orange-tiled hall...
...goals were modest. I laced up my skates on the first night hoping that over the course of the next few weeks I would learn two new things. I know myself, and myself got Cs in gym; adding two moves is pushing it. But I was only there 15 minutes when that night's instructor, Emmanuel, noticed that I was skating with my right knee stiff and suggested that I bend it a couple of inches, just as I was already bending my left one. It sounds subtle, but it was as if I'd been chopping garlic with...