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Jane Nichols' adaptation of Christopher Hampton's highly acclaimed Dangerous Liaisons is a modest attempt to bring a certain degree of finesse to a highly complex storyline. This play deals adeptly with deceit, betrayal, love and above all, control...
...business filled with true showmen, Paul Binder, the ringmaster of The Big Apple, seems modest by comparison. He allows the skill of the performers to woo the audience. When he introduces the Flying Vasquez, he does not mention that Miguel was the first trapeze artist in history to complete a quadruple somersault, formerly thought impossible...
...will reach its own plateau. Despite the superb management team Walton left in place, his death will inevitably mean that the soul of his corporation will change. Community irritation at secretive and standoffish ways of Wal-Mart managers, the "us" (Wal-Mart) against "them" (downtown merchants) attitude, and the modest involvement in public affairs and charities by store officers are building resentment...
WHILE BROWN presses for increased funding for education, one striking aspect of President Bush's education program is the modest increase in funding...
...behavior upsets its allies not because it is necessarily wrong. Turkey's attacks on Kurdish rebels are deeply troubling to all its NATO allies, and Germany certainly has a right to object and even to withhold arms. What has changed is Germany's style. The old, far more modest West Germany would have worked quietly behind the scenes to obtain allied consensus on arms transfers or to persuade Turkey to behave less brutally. Not now, and perhaps never again. "Germany is reflecting its power," says Rollo. "It is confident enough...