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Kwame is sprightly for his age. When I first met him in April last year, he was wearing loose-fitting gold-colored trousers, a gold shirt and a small gold skullcap, all made from the same embroidered fabric. He welcomed me into his modest rented home on the eastern edge of Accra, Ghana's capital, pumping my hand with the energy and strength of a man 20 years younger. The living room was painted electric blue, and a gold vase of plastic flowers sat on the coffee table. There was a small television in the corner and a telephone that...
...professor, who helped discover the “top quark”—the last quark to be uncovered—was modest about her accomplishments...
Superintendent of Cambridge Public Schools Thomas Fowler-Finn unveiled a budget for next year that will add a host of new programs but will rise just 1.86 percent, continuing a recent trend of modest increases to the district’s budget...
...modest ways Allston/Brighton offers quite a lot to such a project—a solid, stable, working people’s neighborhood, home to many groups and cultures, a slice of the world more vibrant and real than much of what’s left in 02138. I like to picture a future Allston with some recherché café, a Pamplona or a Paradiso, right down the street from our neighborhood Dunkin’ Donuts—now that’s true diversity...
...Conley began collecting wine more than 35 years ago and now keeps a modest private cellar—he calls it is his cave (the French term, pronounced cahv)—from which he chooses wines for himself and House events. Like many of Harvard’s wine lovers, he was eager and garrulous when talking about his passion for wine and the highlights of his cave, ranging from late 1960s Châteauneuf-du-Pape to a group of 1982 Firestone Vineyards, “gathering a lot of dust as they...