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...them a second chance, an imitation of the strategy they ridiculed, to their regret, when the Republicans ran on the Contract with America two years ago. Gone are any grand liberal schemes for redistributing wealth and re-engineering society. In their place is Families First, an agenda Gephardt calls "modest, realistic and achievable," and Republicans blast as election-year gorilla dust. The greatest testament to the House Democrats' new, centrist course is its embrace of the G.O.P. goal of balancing the budget by 2002--something many House Democrats continue to consider an unnecessary and thankless pursuit...
Last Friday night, I joined a crowd of about 50 people in a circle in front of the Express store in Brattle Square. In the center of the circle was an uncharacteristically modest street performer. Without saying a word, without throwing balls into the air or lighting anything on fire, this thin young man with scruffy facial hair had all of us enchanted...
...like our gods to be modest; Hu fulfilled this well. In the press conference after the game, he sulked, he blamed everything on himself--especially for getting caught by a linebacker after a 51-yard run--and said that he didn't want to talk about the record. Of course, he still wanted to give his offensive line extra-special thanks and recognition...
...Wilson] is someone who is modest and very willing to listen to other people's opinions," says Edward Walker, Wilson's personal assistant. "He doesn't assert all the time that he is right...
...immigrants, they believe that if they bring the best of their native land's cuisine to America, fortune will inevitably follow. They have, however, picked the wrong time--the 1950s--and the wrong place--the Jersey shore--for culinary proselytizing. Perhaps even the wrong street, for across from their modest establishment stands Pascal's, whose proprietor (Ian Holm) is busy noisily and prosperously ladling red sauce across his customers' tin palates and quietly scheming his rivals' ruin...