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However, that was the only type of offensive attack Harvard could muster. The Crimson had a modest six corners on the day but could not hit a shot on goal on any of them, knocking two balls wide and illegally stopping the ball on the other four...
...Abraham Lincoln wrote in a letter to Albert G. Hodges, "I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." Lincoln was often extremely modest, but this remark was the result of more than humility. Lincoln, particularly as the Civil War stretched into its fourth year, was painfully aware of how much was beyond his control. David Herbert Donald in his biography Lincoln carefully examines the life of Abraham Lincoln from his birth in rural Kentucky through his death...
...Marshall wants to go home to the coastal slums of Savannah to try to improve the lives of the city's foundering African Americans. He has no delusions that he can wipe out the hunger and poverty that haunted his own youth; his attempt last summer to initiate a modest on-the-job-training program for inner-city youths died in the local Chamber of Commerce. He feels scorn for blacks who flee poverty only to forget those they left behind. "[Supreme Court Justice] Clarence Thomas talks about being from Pinpoint, a really rundown area of Savannah...
...wonders if undergraduate writing is served best by the decision to endow the directorship. The first Sosland Prize--$500 and a copy of Dante's Inferno--represents only a small fraction of the family's gift to Harvard. If the Sosland's $2 million gift were deposited in a modest savings account, the money awarded to students each year would be recouped in fewer than five days...
...says a spokesman. The Archive was purchased not by Microsoft but by a separate Gates-owned company, Corbis, which will transform the paper-based collection into digital form using high-speed scanners. The images could be available for a modest fee to home and office computers, online services, CD-ROMs and media not yet invented...