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Lewis declined to advance the bill, calling it "confusing" with only "modest changes...
Books do not always reflect their authors' real-life personalities, but Spock's did. He was as he seemed: modest, funny, empathetic, confident enough in his own knowledge not to be stuffy about it. He was also a most unlikely revolutionary...
...today's overheated legal environment, if an impressionistic painting more modest than many a Matisse can, on its own, count as sexual harassment, the President could be doomed. Jones maintains that as Governor of Arkansas, Clinton exposed himself to her and asked for oral sex at a Little Rock hotel. There was nothing impressionistic about it, Jones said in her deposition last fall: "I mean, it was disgusting...
...threat? Scientists generally agree on the best strategy for avoiding disaster: launch a rocket to intercept the intruder and, at the very least, change its orbit. If the asteroid is small and detected many years and orbits before its predicted impact, the solution would be straightforward. "You apply some modest impulse to the asteroid at its closest approach to the sun," says Los Alamos' Canavan. "The slight deflection that results will amplify during each orbit, ensuring that the asteroid misses Earth by a wide margin." That little push, he notes, could be provided by conventional high explosives...
While Feaster's accomplishments are already written in stone in the annals of Harvard athletics, the senior has played her last game in a Crimson uniform. It would be an understatement to say that we're going to miss having the soft-spoken, modest superstar tearing up our basketball courts and every record in sight. Thank you, Allison, for giving us something else to be proud of besides Nobel laureates and Rhode Scholars...