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...under her helmet, to kick three extra points in a lopsided 71-10 victory over Cumberland State. "I almost teared up at the end," said proud papa Wayne. (Cumberland, handed its 18th straight loss, presumably did too.) Crowe gave No. 89 the game ball as her teammates cheered. The modest Martin is used to this sort of thing--she played football in high school, even accepting her homecoming-queen crown in her pads and cleats at halftime...
...favorite moment at the MTV Video Music Awards came after it had all wrapped up, while I was standing outside the Met. A woman with piles of fire-red hair and dress that revealed more than a modest amount of skin was blowing out the venue. Gaggles of young men and women begged her for her autograph. I asked one young woman who the star was. "I have no idea," the young woman said, checking over the scraggly illegible signature the mystery woman had left her in her autograph book. "But everyone else was getting her to sign stuff...
...presidential inaugurations have varied in size and intent. The inaugural events of former University President James B. Conant ‘14 and the university’s tercentennial were for all intents and purposes one and the same. Derek C. Bok’s installation was a modest affair. His successor and Summers’ predecessor, Neil L. Rudenstine, had one of the first grand inaugural galas in memory as he embarked on the first University-wide Capital Campaign...
...book, written with co-author Ted Dekker, is (like the "Left Behind" series) chock full of hi-tech and hollow-point bullets, but for Left Behind's apocalyptic backdrop, it substitutes more modest effects like the raising of the dead. This is a wonder that Bright is convinced that God ("He hasn't changed"), continues to bestow among communities of "people who trust and obey him." But not, Bright hopes, to him: since it would interrupt his final reunion with the Lord. He has no idea how much time he has left. He appears not to be concerned...
...been heading the Charity Foundation in Memory of the Komsomolets (echernov@online.ru). But Chernov today is focused on the fate of a more recent Northern Fleet casualty, the Kursk, which he believes is being covered up by the Russian authorities. He talked with TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich at his modest office in St. Petersburg...