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With the aid of a CD-ROM-generated street map of Clearfield, Sayer guides the van to Hall's house. It's a modest but tidy red brick home with an American-flag wreath on the door. Bingo! "That looks like a Nellye Hall house," Sayer says with approval. The team doubles back into town to meet up with the car dealer who has brought the Jag in from Harrisburg. And then: Showtime. But alas, Prize Patrol history is not to be made. Hall turns out to be a great-grandmother of preternatural calm. Confronted by cameras, hysterical Patrol members...
First the good news: in laying out the House regulations to his "Sisters and Brothers of the Winthrop Nation," Senior Tutor Gregory Mobley struck a blow against age discrimination, setting the House drinking age to a modest...
Green describes the report's recommendations as modest in nature. But he believes the report, now being circulated throughout the University, will help initiate an ongoing examination of the relationship between Harvard scientists and their sponsors...
...dreams go, Michael Little Boy Sr.'s is a modest one. He would like to move. Not into a mansion. But into someplace better than where he lives now. Little Boy, 41, lives in a one-room shack. Along with him live his wife, five children and two nieces: nine people jammed into a space that measures 20 ft. by 20 ft. The house, on the Pine Ridge Oglala Sioux reservation in South Dakota, has one tiny window with a plastic pane. It is made of Sheetrock and cheap wood siding. In winter the frigid South Dakota wind tears through...
Instead he retreated to a borrowed computer, where at the urging of a bankruptcy lawyer he wrote his semiautobiographical novel in 10 months. "We figured that if I got $40,000 for the book it would enable us to pay some bills," says Ramus from his modest rented house in Atlanta, where he has lived since 1993. He got considerably more than that. HarperCollins paid a stunning $1 million advance for the first novel, despite a lazy writing style that features passages such as "Art speaks to me. I don't know how or why." And then, 129 pages later...