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...mail message from the concentration, however, they were assured that the changes would "have only modest impact on [their] course choices...
Talk about rude awakenings. When Omar Epps caught an early screening of The Mod Squad last year, he hoped for at least a modest success. After all, he had trounced many of Hollywood's hot young black actors and even a few rap stars for the spot opposite Claire Danes and Giovanni Ribisi in this Gen X version of the cult TV series. Once the screening began, however, Epps quickly lost interest and shut his eyes to escape the boredom. "I fell asleep," he recalls. "When I finally woke up, I looked around and said, 'S___, this movie is gonna...
...there's also his suspiciously controversial physical prowess. According to several math concentrators and a math professor who wish to remain anonymous for reasons unknown, Elkies is being modest about his phenomenal upper body strength. And Satija, who worked with Elkies on the Lowell House Opera, says he was quite impressed with Elkies' ability to manhandle the sets on breakdown day. "I've definitely seen him do some non-trivial lifting," he said...
Bush's position on the issue is illustrated by a series of events that took place last summer. A Texas state representative had offered an exceedingly modest bill to the legislature that would have allowed counties to choose whether to continue with the current system, in which judges appointed defense lawyers, or to set up public defender's offices of their own. The bill would have also have created a county-by-county list of minimally qualified capital defense attorneys from which the judges could choose. (One index of the state of the Texas legal system is that another provision...
Then everything changed. Or should I say nothing changed? Investors flooded into the market to buy the dip, and the NASDAQ roared back to end the day with only modest losses, then skipped through the rest of the week with little grief. Indeed, tech bellwethers, including Oracle and Intel, finished the week with gains...